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I. O. O. F. 



CODE 



OF 

PATRIARCHAL LAW 

OF THE 

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS 

OF THE 

GRAND JURISDICTION OF PENNSYLVANIA 

CONTAINING 

THE GENERAL LAWS RELATING TO THE PATRIARCHAL BRANCH OF 
THE ORDER, THE LEGISLATION OF THE GRAND ENCAMP- 
MENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND THE APPROVED 
DECISIONS OF THE GRAND PATRIARCH 
OF THIS JURISDICTION 



PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA 



PHILADELPHIA 
1907 






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LUHAHY of CONGRESS 
Two Cooies Received 

AUG 23 190/' 

*CoDyritW BnlTy 
CLASS /\ ' ^Xt., No. 

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Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1907, 

By 

USHER A. HALL, Grand Scribe, 

in trust for the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania. I. O. O. F. 

In the Oftice of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. D. C. 



Copy of the original Charter of the Grand Encampment. 
(The signatures of the Officers of the Grand Lodge are not on the copy in existence .) 



INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. 



To all whom it may concern, these come greeting : 

Zhc (Branb Xobge 

of Pennsylvania, 

By authority of a Grand Charter, granted by the GRAND LODGE of the 
United States, doth hereby grant this Warrant, on the appUcation of 

Thomas Small, David Rekefuse, John G. Potts, William H. Matthews, 
Isaac Brown, Andrew Anderson, Samuel Pryor, Lawrence O'Connor, 
John Posthill & James M'Mullen, 

Members of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, on whom the Patriarchal, Golden 
Rule and Royal Purple Degrees have been conferred, to form a Grand Encamp- 
ment, to be hailed by the title of 

Ubc Grant) Bncampment ot pattiarcbs 

of the State of Pennsylvania. 

AND the said Grand Encampment, being duly formed, is hereby authorized and 
empowered to open, superintend, and govern all Working Encampments of 
Patriarchs, in the State of Pennsylvania, who are acting under a Legal War- 
rant, recommended by said Grand Encampment, and granted by the Grand 
Lodge, and to enact laws for their government, and the government of the 
Work of the Encampments (not contravening the laws of the Grand Lodge). 
PROVIDED always, That the said Grand Encampment shall be held in the 
City of Philadelphia, in the State aforesaid, and not removed therefrom, without 
the consent of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania; and also, that they pay due 
respect and obedience to the Grand Lodge, and in every manner support its 
Constitution, Laws, and Regulations; in default of which, this Warrant may be 
suspended or taken away at the decision of the Grand Lodge; and further, the 
Grand Lodge, in consideration of the due performance of the above, do bind 
themselves, that in case this Warrant should be destroyed by fire, or other 
accident, it shall be replaced by them, and the Grand Lodge will support the 
Grand Encampment in the exercise of their duty, and in the privileges and 
honor of the Order. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have displayed the colors of our Order, and 
subscribed our names and affixed the Seal of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, 
done in the City of Philadelphia, this sixteenth day of June, 1829. 



Cbarter of tbe (Branb lEncampment 

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 



To all whom it may concern, these come greeting: 

The Grand Lodge of the United States of America, the source of all true and 
legitimate authority in Odd Fellowship in the United States of America, on the 
surrender, and in place of a former Grand Charter, issued by the Grand Lodge of 
Pennsylvania, dated i6th June, A. D. 1829, under which, Charters of Subordinate 
Encampments, No. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, have been granted, which Encampments 
having seven or more Past Chief Patriarchs and Past High Priests, of the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows in good standing, residing in the State of 
Pennsylvania, hereby grant this Grand Charter for a 



©rant) Encampment 

of Pennsylvania 

of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

And the said Encampment, being duly formed, is hereby authorized and 
empowered to grant Warrants and Dispensations to true and faithful Patriarchs, 
to open Encampments in the said State according to the laws and usages of Odd 
Fellowship, and to administer to all Past Patriarchs the privileges and benefits 
appertaining to a Grand Encampment, and enact By-laws for the government of 
the same. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that the said Grand Encampment be held in 
Philadelphia, State aforesaid : AND, that they pay due respect and obedience to 
the GRAND LODGE OF THE UNITED STATES, by acting in conjunction 
therewith, and in every manner supporting its Constitution and By-laws. IN 
DEFAULT THEREOF, this Charter may be suspended, or taken away, at the 
decision of the Grand Lodge of the United States. And further, the Grand Lodge 
of the United States, in consideration of the due performance of the above, do 
bind themselves to repair all damages or destruction of the Charter, whether by 
fire or accident : Provided, sufficient proof be given, that there is no illegal con- 
cealment or wilful destruction of the same. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have displayed the colors of our Order, and 
subscribed our names, and affixed the Seal of the Grand Lodge of the United 
States, this twenty-second day of September, A. D. One thousand eight hundred 
and forty-one. 



Thomas Wildey, 

P. G. Sire. 
Saml. H. Perkins, 

P.G.S. 



\ Seal V \ Colors \ 



Representatives 

Rich'd Marley, Maryland. 
Thaddeus Davids, New York. 
Alanson Cook, New York. 
H. Hopkins, Pennsylvania. 
John A. Kennedy, Delaware. 
Sylvester Vn Sickell, N. J. 
Mark P. Taylor, Ohio. 
N. B. Leidy, Pennsylvania. 
Sam. Lucas, Louisiana. 
Jas. L. Ridgely, Ohio. 
Wm. Bayley, Missouri. 
Chs. Wm. Bradley, Conn. 
J. Hull, Jr., Virginia. 
J. C. McKelden, Dis. of Col. 
Robert Neilson, Indiana. 



Zenas B. Glazier, 
M. W. G. Sire. 

Horn R. Kneass, 
R.W.D.G.Sire. 

James L. Ridgely, 
R. W.G. Sec'ry. ,^^| 

A. E. Warner, i||^^ 

R.W.G.Treas. 2 
William Warren, 
W.G. Guardian. 



S^Copy from the margin : " Baltimore, September 22, 1841. Granted by order 
of the Grand Lodge of the United States in place of the original Grand Charter, 
from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, upon a surrender of the same." 

Signed, Jas. L. Ridgely, Grand Recording Secretary 



PHILIP J. VETTER, 

Grand Patriarch, 

©tanD Bncampment, 11. ©. ©♦ 3P. 

of Pennsylvania. 

Bear Sir and Patriarch: 

The undersigned, appointed by the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, to 
compile, codify and publish the laws governing Patriarchal Odd Fellowship in so 
far as they relate to this Jurisdiction, present herewith our completed labors. 

We submit this as being, in our united judgment, a transcript of the laws 
relating to Patriarchal Odd Fellowship as they appear in the Journals of the 
Sovereign Grand Lodge and of this Grand Encampment, so that, upon your 
confirmation thereof, this "Code of Patriarchal Law" may govern Encampments 
and Patriarchs in this Jurisdiction. 




P.G. P. 






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Philadelphia, April 2, 1907. 



I. O. O. F. 

©ffice ot tbe ©rant) iPatriarcb 

of the 

Grant) Bncampment ot iPenns^lvanta, 

Odd Fellows' Temple, Broad and Cherry Sts., 
PHILADELPHIA. 



To the Jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment, I. O. O. P. of Pennsylvania. 
Patriarchal Greeting: 

WHEREAS, 

Howard R. Sheppard, P. G. P., 
Usher A. Hall, G. S., 
Edwin L. Ritter, P. G. M., 
Thomas F. Gross, P. G. P., 
J. P. Hale Jenkins, P. C. P., 

who were duly appointed a committee to compile, codify and publish the laws 
governing Patriarchal Odd Fellowship in this Jurisdiction, have reported the 
within "Code of Patriarchal Law" as the result of their labors and that the 
various provisions herein contained are, in their united judgment, a transcript 
of the laws as they appear in the Journals of the Sovereign Grand Lodge and of 
this Grand Encampment; 

THEREFORE, by authority vested in me as Grand Patriarch of the Grand 
Encampment, I. O. O. F. of Pennsylvania, I do hereby certify and declare that 
the same is published for the information and government of the Order in this 
Jurisdiction. 





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Grand Patriarch. 



Attest: 



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Grand Scribe. 



Philadelphia, April 8, 1907. 



Philadelphia, September 28, 1906. 

A meeting of the Board of Grand Officers of the Grand Encampment I. O. O. F. 
of Pennsylvania was held this evening at 8 o'clock in the office of the Grand 
Scribe, Odd Fellows' Temple. 

Present 

Herman W. Roller, Grand Patriarch 
Peter Fritz, Grand Senior Warden 
Usher A. Hall, Grand Scribe 
J. Henry Beitel, Grand Treasurer 

A report was presented from the Committee to Codify the General and Consti- 
tutional Laws, with whom the Grand Patriarch had been acting as an ex-officio 
member, stating that the manuscript of the work was about completed and pre- 
senting an estimate of the probable cost of printing and binding the books. 

On motion, it was : 

Resolved, That this Board of Grand Officers deem it advisable that 300yCopies 
of the book prepared by the Committee appointed at the Annual Communication 
of the Grand Encampment, held in 1904, be at once printed and bound ;vand 
therefore recommend that the Grand Encampment appropriate the sum of $600, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, for this purpose. 

We further recommend, that when the same are finished the Grand]|Scribe 
be authorized to furnish one copy to each Encampment in the Jurisdiction free of 
charge, arid that the remainder of the number be sold as supplies at a cost?^price 
to be fixed by the Board of Grand Officers. 

At the Annual Communication, of the Grand Encampment October 17, 1906, 
the item of $600 appropriation and the recommendation relating to the printing 
and distributing of the new Code of Laws being under consideration, the same 

was approved. 




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Grand Scribe. 



forvoort)* 

The members of the Encampment Branch of our Order will find the laws 
relating to the government of Patriarchal Odd Fellowship in this Grand Juris- 
diction of Pennsylvania in 

The Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand Encampment, 

The Uniform Constitution for Subordinate Encampments, 

The Approved By-Laws of Subordinate Encampments, 

and in this 

CoDe of iPatrtarcbal Xaw* 



I. In order that this compilation may be in a true sense a codification, in 
every case the law itself has been taken word for word, so that this book, 
instead of being a digest or mere index to the laws, actually contains the law in 
its original state, without abbreviation or the injection of mere opinions, which 
must necessarily result from any system of digesting, no matter how complete. 

II. It is expected that the Encampments will not always find herein answers 
to all the questions that will arise in the course of their business ; in fact, the 
deficiencies of all laws are so evident that Encampments will, as heretofore, 
necessarily find many occasions when they will need advice and guidance. At 
such times they are not to go to the body of Sovereign Grand Lodge law or to the 
laws of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, with which they are perhaps more 
familiar, as a guide, but they are to submit their questions to the Grand 
Patriarch of the Jurisdiction during recess, or to the Grand Encampment when 
in session, to the end that they may be correctly informed concerning the law, 
and that by the approval of the Grand Patriarch's decision or by the direct 
enactment of the Grand Encampment the body of Patriarchal law may have 
that continued, uninterrupted and healthy growth demanded by the rapidly 
increasing importance of this branch of our Order. 

III. The term " general law," as used in this Code, means the enactments of 
the Sovereign Grand Lodge, which, of course, includes the approX^ed decisions of 
the Grand Sire. 

IV. The term " local law," as used in this Code, means the enactments of the 
Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, which likewise includes the approved deci- 
sions of the Grand Patriarch. 

V. The only laws a subordinate Encampment may enact for its own govern- 
ment must appear in its by-laws, approved by the Grand Encampment, or its 
Committee on By-laws. 

VI. Irregularities arising out of the violation of law can only be healed by the 
authority competent to pass the law; if the law violated was "one of general 
application," the Sovereign Grand Lodge alone is such competent authority. 
— 5. G. L. 12355. 

VII. No Encampment, subordinate to any State, District or Territorial Grand 
Encampment, has a right to present questions of law directly to the Grand Sire 
for his decision. All such questions must go through the channel provided by the 
local law. — S. G. L. 4992, 12 123. 

VIII. When a construction or interpretation of local law is required by any 
individual member, or Subordinate, the State Grand Body having jurisdiction is 
the proper tribunal to pronounce on the question, subject to appeal to the Sover- 
eign Grand Lodge. — ^5. G. L. 12355. 

IX. The way to reach the Grand Encampment during its recess is through 
the decisions of the Grand Patriarch. 



CODE 

OF 

PATRIARCHAL LAW 



I 

NOTE. — The citation "S. G. L." refers to the Sovereign Grand Lodge Annua 
Reports, which are paged consecutively up to the year 1898. Subsequent to 
that date the citation includes the year of the Report as well as the page. 

The citation " Pa. Digest " refers to the old Pennsylvania Digest, edition of 1892, 

The citation "Pa." refers to the Annual Reports of the Grand Encampment 

of Pennsylvania, preceded by the year of the Report and followed by the page. 



ADMISSION. 

[See Application for Membership, Proposition for Membership, Residence, Certificates, Territorial 
Jurisdiction, Admission Fee, and Age] 

1. No citizen of one State, District or 3. A person resident of one jurisdic- 
TerHtory wherein encampments are es- tion may be admitted to membership in 
tablished shall be admitted to member- another jurisdiction either by initiation 
ship in an encampment of another State, or deposit of card if all the following 
District or Territory without the pre- conditions exist : 

vious consent of the Grand Encamp- -n. t • i- .• . 1 

ment, or Grand Patriarch of the State, ^- ^he Jurisdiction must be contig- 

District or Territory whereof such citi- "^"^ ^^ adjacent. 

zen is a resident.— 5". G. L. Constitution. 2. He must have the consent of the 

Grand Encampment, or Grand Patriarch 

2. Any encampment violating the fore- of the jurisdiction in which he resides, 
going section, upon conviction thereof 

before the Grand Encampment of the 3- The subordinate must be the one 

jurisdiction within which the same is nearest his residence. 
located,shallforfeitand pay to the Grand ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 

Encampment of the jurisdiction withm jurisdiction under which the subordi- 

which the person, admitted to member- J^^^^ ^^-^^^ ^^^^ ^^ • j 

ship in violation of the provisions of f f v^ j 

said section, shall reside, all initiation 5. The necessary consent, legally auth- 

and degree charges received from such enticated, must accompany the appli- 

person up to date of such conviction. — cation for membership. — 5". G. L. 14682, 

6^. G. L. 2672. 10715, 15212. 

ADMISSION FEE. 

[See Admission,Application for Membership, and Propositions for Membership] 

4. It is unlawful to refund the initia- the sum of one dollar, and the balance 
tion-fee either directly or indirectly.— was paid by a committee appointed by 
1904 Pa. 260. the Encampment from an appropriation 

previously made for that purpose, there- 

5. Where an encampment initiated by working injuriously to other En- 
members for the sum of one dollar, that campments who charge the sum requisite 
is to say, the candidate proposed paid for an initiate to become a member; 



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it was held to be unlawful and a direct 
violation of the fundamental law of the 
order. — 1873, Pa. 363. 

6. While an Encampment may un- 
doubtedly say that it will not receive 
and entertain a proposition for member- 
ship unless it is accompanied by all or 
part of the admission fee, yet having 
once received a proposition and started 
in motion the machinery provided by the 
Grand Encampment for the election of a 
Patriarch, it cannot subsequently, by 
setting up its own failure to comply 
with the Law, defeat, destroy or nullify 
the general laws of the Order, nor de- 
prive a brother of vested rights, he has 
acquired by reason of a favorable ballot 
having been had upon his application 
for membership. In this connection it 
may be well to point out that applicants 
for membership in the Encampment are 
necessarily members of the Order of 
Odd Fellows in good standing, and there 
is not therefore the same reason for the 
law here concerning admission fees as in 
the subordinate Lodge. In a case where 
the proposition was received without the 
admission fee, a committee appointed, 
the committee reported and a ballot was 
had. Held that the proposition having 
been received and acted on without the 
admission fee it clearly amounted to 
a waiver of the requirement of the Law 
concerning the proposition fee. and 
which in no way related to or affected 
the ballot. That by the plain reading of 
the law, the proposition having been re- 
ceived, the committee appointed, the 
committee's report received and the bal- 



lot had, the result is final. Any objec- 
tion should have been raised at the time 
the proposition was presented to the 
Encampment and formally received and 
acknowledged by the appointment of the 
investigating committee. — 1901, Pa. 144. 

7. The fees for depositing cards in 
subordinate encampments and the time 
at which members depositing cards shall 
receive benefits are subjects peculiarly 
within the jurisdiction of Grand Bodies. 
—S. G. L. 1450, 11754. 

8. The S. G. L. has placed the control 
of the question of the reinstatement of 
members who have been suspended for 
non-payment of dues in the various 
local Grand Bodies. — 1902, 5. G. L. 895. 

9. Grand Encampments are hereby 
authorized to legislate so as to permit 
the degrees of subordinate encampments 
to be conferred at a minimum price of 
not less than $1 each or $3 for the three 
degrees. — 5. G. L. 15073, 15169. 

10. Any person, residing in one juris- 
diction and joining an encampment in 
another jurisdiction, whose fees for 
admission to membership, either by initi- 
ation or deposit of card, are less than 
the minimum fees charged in his own 
jurisdiction, shall pay to the encamp- 
ment he so joins the amount of the 
minimum fees charged in his own juris- 
diction, and the encampment which he 
joins shall pay the excess thus collected 
over to the Grand Encampment of the 
jurisdiction in which he resides. — 5. G. 
L. 14251, 14090. 



AGE. 

[See Application for Membership, and Benefits] 



II. Any fraudulent misrepresentation 
of his age by a party seeking admission 
into the Encampment branch of this 
Order, whereby membership therein is 
illegally obtained for a less considera- 
tion than the law of the encampment 
requires, shall discharge the encamp- 
ment from any and all responsibilities 
growing out of the initiation of the party 
in question from and after the time such 
fraud shall be discovered and proved or 
determined upon a fair investigation 
and upon competent testimony. It shall 
be legal to investigate and determine the 
fact of such a fraud even after the death 
of the party alleged to be guilty thereof ; 
provided due notice of such investigation 
is given to the representatives or family 
of the deceased claiming benefits of the 
encampment. — i'. G. L. 3601, 3679. 



12. A brother on his admission repre- 
sented his age as twenty-one years. After 
his initiation it was ascertained that he 
was still in his minority. Charges were 
preferred, to which he pleaded guilty. 
In view of extenuating circumstances, 
the lodge reprimanded him and suspend- 
ed him for six months. If a person had 
by guile or falsehood, wilfully commit- 
ted, become one of our membership, he 
could, upon due trial, be ejected, but if 
there were extenuating circumstances 
connected with the misrepresentation, 
these could be considered in measuring 
out the punishment. It may appear that 
the wrong was unintentional, that the 
representation was made from ignor- 
ance, thoughtlessness, want of due con- 
sideration or upon information received 
from others trusted by the defendant. 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



II 



In such cases the tribunal acts in accord- 
ance with the benign spirit of the Order 
when it imposes no greater punishment 
than one commensurate with the offence; 
erring, if errors must be, on the side 
of mercy. — 5. G. L. 4858. 

13. It would probably be unwise and 
unjust to compel subordinate encamp- 
ments to place aged and indigent mem- 
bers on the same basis as sick members. 
— ^. G. L. 9733- 



14. Grand Encampments may, by 
appropriate legislation, make such pro- 
vision for benefits for aged, infirm and 
indigent members as they may deem 
proper. Grand Bodies have already 
been granted full power to enact laws 
enabling subordinate encampments to 
make provision for such benefits for the 
aged and infirm as they may deem 
proper.— 6'. G. L. 9733, i0943- 



AGREEMENTS. 

[See Benefits] 



15. An encampment endeavored to 
compromise the claims of Patriarchs 
who claimed sick benefits after the En- 
campment had declared them not en- 
titled, and the Patriarchs had appealed 
from its action and the commissioners 
had been appointed ; such action on the 
part of the Encampment is illegal. The 



commissioners were directed to proceed 
at once to hear the testimony and thus 
determine if the Patriarchs were entitled 
to benefits or not. " Part benefits are 
not allowed." Those claiming benefits 
are entitled to what the By-Laws pre- 
scribe — no more, no less. — 1900, Pa. 21. 



AMENDMENTS. 

[See By-Laws, and Constitution] 



ANNIVERSARY. 

[See Permission Granted] 



16. The 26th day of April is estab- 
lished as the anniversary of the Order. — 
5. G. L. 4210. 

17. The Grand Sire is warranted in 
permitting subordinates to select an- 
other day than Sunday for celebrat- 
ing the anniversary of the Order when 
the anniversary falls on that day, and 
in permitting such celebration to be held 
on the preceding or upon the following 
day. — 1900, S. G. L. 517. 

18. The Grand Sire's proclamation 
grants no permission to a subordinate 
encampment in the jurisdiction to appear 
in regalia without the permission of the 
Grand Patriarch. — 5. G. L. 7376. 

19. The title of the officers conducting 
the ceremony shall be such as belong 
to the body conducting it. — 5. G. L. 
10252. 

20. The Grand Encampment has de- 
creed that it is very desirable to set aside 
a date, on which the encampment branch 
could celebrate its anniversary and in 
this way direct the attention of the sub- 
ordinate lodges to Patriarchal Odd Fel- 



lowship. There are several days that 
might be considered, the most available 
one, however, it seems is that of June 
19th, on which date in 1829, an encamp- 
ment of Patriarchs was opened in Phila- 
delphia by Grand Sire Wildey, at which 
time the officers of that encampment 
were installed. On August 19th, it was, 
upon motion, resolved that " This En- 
campment be called ' The Grand En- 
campment of Pennsylvania,' " so that 
while the latter date was the date on 
which the Grand Encampment was so 
named, yet on the former date its birth 
actually took place. The date of June 
19th has a double advantage in it, inde- 
pendent of its being the origin of the 
encampment branch, in that it is a day 
which, as a rule, is not too warm for 
indoor celebration nor too cold for out- 
door exercises. It would, therefore en- 
able the encampments to commemorate 
it in a way which would commend itself 
to them. Of course it is to be distinctly 
understood that in no sense of the word 
is such an anniversary to stand as a 
competing one with that of the twenty- 
sixth of April which as being the great 
birthday of our Order must be dear to 
every Odd Fellow's heart; but is to be 



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used simply as a means of bringing to 
the attention of tlie subordinate lodges 
and the outside world the fact that there 
is a higher branch in Odd Fellowship 
than the Subordinate Lodge and one to 



which every Odd Fellow should aspire. 
Therefore such an Anniversary Day is 
set aside by the Grand Encampment and 
the day named by the Grand Encamp- 
ment is June 19th. — 1904, Pa. 322, 260. 



APPEALS. 

[See Charges and Trial, and Commissioner] 



21. An appeal from the action of an 
encampment suspends all proceedings in 
reference to the subject under consider- 
ation until the decision of the Grand 
Patriarch or the Grand Encampment is 
had, but this has no reference to the 
installation of an officer when his eligi- 
bility is called in question and the mat- 
ter is appealed to the Grand Patriarch 
and Grand Encampment, the decision 
of the encampment having been in the 
brother's favor. — S. G. L. 5281. 

22. Where the facts are all admitted 
and the sole question was whether a 
brother was legally elected to become 
a member of the encampment. This 
called for an interpretation of the laws 
of the Order, on which it was the duty 
of the Chief Patriarch primarily to make 
a decision ; and in case his decision 
is contested, then the appeal is to the 
encampment and from that body to the 
Grand Encampment, or if that body is 
not in session then to the Grand Patri- 
arch. This is the proper mode of pro- 
cedure. — 1901, Pa. 143; 5. G. L. 1 1 104. 

23. An appeal of an encampment from 
the action of the Committee on Appeals 
was presented to the Grand Encampment 
in which it was stated that this encamp- 
ment never received notice in any man- 
ner whatever of a meeting of the Appeal 
Committee to consider the case, there- 
fore no opportunity was had to defend 
the action of the encampment in refusing 
the benefits claimed. The case was re- 
ferred back to the Committee on Appeals 
with directions to give the encampment 
an opportunity to be heard on the sub- 
ject, and make its defence. — 1883, Pa. 
453- 

24. A member who prefers charges 
against another member of his encamp- 
ment has a _ right to appeal from the 
action of his encampment in finding 
the brother not guilty. — S. G. L. 15168. 

25. The Grand Patriarch cannot grant 
an appeal to a subordinate encampment 
from the action of the Grand Encamp- 
ment. — 1899, 6'. G. L. 2,?)- 

26. In all appeals to the S. G. L. it 
shall be required of the appellants to 



send with their papers a certified copy 
of the constitution and by-laws of their 
Grand Body, of the constitution of sub- 
ordinates and of the by-laws of the sub- 
ordinate lodge or encampment involved 
in the appeal. — 6". G. L. 10481. 

27. An appeal does not lie from the re- 
port of a committee, where the law pro- 
vides action on its finding at the annual 
communication. The proper method of 
reopening the report would be to recom- 
mit the report to the committee, with in- 
structions as to the procedure the com- 
mittee should take ; although the Grand 
Encampment might consider the report 
of the committee in detail and act on 
it in open session. — 1904, Pa. 251. 

28. When the Committee on Appeals 
were unable to reach a majority decis- 
ion in a certain case they reported the 
fact to the Grand Encampment with a 
recommendation that the case be sub- 
mitted to a special committee, to hear 
and determine the same, which resolu- 
tion the Grand Encampment adopted, 
and the case was accordingly disposed 
of .—1874, Pa. 49 ; 1875, Pa. 67. 

29. With the consent of the Grand 
Encampment of a State, District or Ter- 
ritory, an appeal may be had by any 
encampment to the Sovereign Grand 
Lodge, such consent, however, not be- 
ing necessary when an expelled encamp- 
ment, after having surrendered to its 
Grand Encampment all its effects, ap- 
peals from such decision. Appeals may 
also be heard from a member or mem- 
bers of a State, District or Territorial 
Grand Encampment from the decision 
thereof. But in all cases the decision of 
the State, District or Territorial Grand 
Encampment shall be final and conclus- 
ive until reversed by the S. G. L. on a 
direct appeal therefrom. AH appeals to 
the S. G. L. shall be subject to such 
general regulations as it may adopt. — 
vS*. G. L. Constitution. 

30. The proper construction of the 
second clause of Section 4, Article I, 
of the constitution of the S. G. L., which 
reads thus : " Appeals may also be heard 
from a member or members of a State, 



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District or Territorial Grand Lodge or 
Grand Encampment from a decision 
thereof," confines such right of appeal 
to questions affecting the general interest 
of the entire Order or to the general in- 
terests of the Order in the particular 
jurisdiction from which the appeal 
comes, and does not extend it to ques- 
tions of grievances of individual mem- 
bers or lodges. — S. G. L. 3575. 

31. A member of a Grand Body, may 
appeal to the S. G. L. without consent 
of the Grand Body in a case of a claim 
for benefits made by him. — 5". G. L. 



32. A subordinate encampment can- 
not appeal to the Grand Sire or the 
S. G. L. without consent of the Grand 
Encampment. — 1899, 6^. G. L. 2)Z- 

2,3. A Grand Body should not refuse 
to grant an appeal to the S. G. L. in a 
case where the true spirit of fraternity 
demands that the appeal be granted. — 
1902, 5". G. L. 952. 

34. Should the Grand Encampment re- 
fuse to grant an appeal to the Sovereign 



Grand Lodge, the aggrieved member 
may bring the controversy to the atten- 
tion of that body by petition, and if the 
facts presented are such as should, in 
the true spirit of fraternity, have war- 
ranted permission to appeal being 
granted by the G. E. the S. G. L. will 
hear and determine the case. — 1902, 6". 
G. L. 952, 969- 

35. In a certain case it was moved, 
that permission be given to appeal to the 
S. G. L. from the action of the Grand 
Encampment, in the matter of a claim 
against an encampment. The point of 
order was raised that before permission 
could be given, a communication request- 
ing it, must first be presented by the 
applicant or his counsel. It was ruled, 
that the point of order was not well 
taken and the permission to appeal was 
granted.— 1883, Pa. 455- 

36. The law of the Order makes no 
provision for the recovery of costs of 
an appeal by one litigant from another ; 
therefore costs made by one party can- 
not be recovered from the other, no 
matter what may be the result of the 
litigation. — 1905, S. G. L. 43. 



APPEALS FOR AID. 



Zy. An encampment desiring to peti- 
tion subordinate lodges for aid must 
first obtain permission from both the 
Grand Patriarch and the Grand Master 
of this jurisdiction. — S. G. L. 13784. 

38. No encampment shall entertain any 
application for pecuniary aid or assist- 
ance, under whatever scheme it may be 
presented, unless the same be authorized 
by the Grand Body or its principal 
Grand Officer of the jurisdiction in 
which such aid is solicited and in accord- 
ance with the form prescribed for such 
purposes by the S. G. L. — 5. G. L. 3953. 

39. It shall be unlawful for any Grand 
Master, Grand Patriarch, Grand or sub- 
ordinate lodge or encampment, or any 
oificer or member thereof, or any com- 
mittee or any jurisdiction to solicit aid 
or relief for any purpose or in any 
manner, either by direct request for 



funds, sale of tickets or chances, or by 
any scheme whatever, from the lodges, 
encamprnents or members of another 
jurisdiction without having first obtained 
the consent of the Grand Master of such 
other jurisdiction, if such appeal is to 
be made to the lodges or members 
thereof, or of the Grand Patriarch, if 
such appeal is to be made to encamp- 
ments or patriarchs thereof. Such con- 
sent can only be obtained upon proper 
request therefor duly made by the Grand 
Master or Grand Patriarch of the solicit- 
ing jurisdiction of the Grand Master 
or Grand Patriarch of the solicited juris- 
diction. — S. G. L. 15056, 15599. 

40. A Grand Body is authorized to 
grant permission to one of its subor- 
dinates to ask contributions from its 
other subordinates for the relief of an 
individual member of such subordinate. 
— S. G. L. 1 1299. 



APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. 

[See Proposition for Membership, Territorial Jurisdiction, Transfer of Membership, Certificates, 
Investigating Committee, Admission Fees, and Admission] 



41. A member in good standing of a 
lodge, claiming to be a member of a 
defunct encampment, but unable to ob- 



tain satisfactory proof of such fact, may 
apply for membership in an encamp- 
ment by initiation, but his application 



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should state that he did not lose mem- 
bership in such defunct encampment by 
suspension or expulsion, and no dispen- 
sation is necessary to allow such en- 
campment to admit such applicant. — 
6". G. L. 15169. 

42. A candidate can be received on a 
certificate of resignation from the en- 
campment to which he formerly be- 
longed. — 1903, 5. G. L. 39. 



43. If an application for membership 
in a subordinate encampment, by deposit 
of a card, be made and rejected it must 
be returned to the applicant. The card 
is the rightful property of the brother 
by whom it is deposited, and unless 
accepted by the encampment should as a 
matter of course be returned to its 
owner. — 5". G. L. 1399, 1449. 



APPROPRIATIONS. 

[See Funds, and Contingent Fund] 



44. An encampment passed a resolu- 
tion to donate $5.00 each to its members 
who attended a parade. From this act 
an appeal was taken. It was decided 
that the resolution was unlawful, and 
that the money should not be paid. — 
1877, Pa. 310. 

45. When the laws of a Grand Body 
are silent on the subject, it has no right 
to provide a dinner for its members 
while at its sessions and pay for the 
same from the funds of the Grand 
Body.— 5". G. L. 7813. 

46. An encampment cannot legally do- 
nate a sum of money for the formation 
of a Canton of Patriarchs Militant in 
the city in which the encampment is 
located. — 1905, S. G. L. 45. 

47. It is not lawful for an encamp- 
ment to appropriate money from its 
regular funds for music at the funeral 
of a patriarch. — S. G. L. 8053. 



48. An encampment has not the right 
to appropriate its funds for charitable 
purposes in no way connected with the 
I. O. O. F. ; the moneys of the Order 
should be husbanded for the needs of 
the Order and not squandered in miscel- 
laneous charities. — S. G. L. 11892. 

49. An appropriation of the general 
funds of a subordinate encampment, for 
the purpose of entertaining the officers 
and representatives of Grand Bodies 
or for the purpose of celebrating the an- 
niversaries of the respective encamp- 
ments, is not proper or legitimate and 
should not be countenanced by State 
Grand Bodies. — S. G. L. 9738, 10944. 

50. An encampment cannot lawfully 
pay out of its general funds a deficit on 
account of a clambake, a part the cost 
of which has been paid by personal con- 
tributions. — 1902, 5". G. L. 537. 



APPROVAL. 

[See Constitution, and By-Laws] 

ARREARS. 

[See Dues] 



AUDITING COMMITTEE. 

[See Committees] 



51. The duties of Auditing Commit- 
tees, as prescribed by the Constitution, 
are in a great measure indefinite, and 
really no guide to those entrusted with 
that work. This is one of the most 
important business features of an en- 
campment. The following is the con- 
struction upon the present law, and to 
govern the duties of Auditing Commit- 
tees until such time as the matter may 
be more clearly defined and embodied in 
the Constitution for subordinates: 



It shall be the duty of the Committee 
appointed to audit the books of the 
Scribe and Treasurer to examine the 
books and see that all proper charges 
have been made to each member, and 
that all payments by members and re- 
ceipts from other sources have been cor- 
rectly posted ; to examine all bank 
books, bonds, or other evidences of in- 
vestment in the hands of the Treasurer 
and Trustees ; to total the receipts by 
the Scribe and compare them with the 



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The following is the form for : 

REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE 



The Committee appointed to audit the books of the Scribe and Treasurer, for the term ending 
19. .^ performed that duty on the day of i9- •■, and report as follows : 



Balance in hands of Treasurer at last Report 
The Scribe has received and paid to Treasurer— 

for Dues and Assessments 

for Initiation and Admission Fees 

from Trustees, Interest on Invested Funds 

from Trustees, from Principal of Funds 

for Benefits returned by other Encampments 



Total Receipts and Balance 

Less Amount due the Treasurer at last report (if any) 
Total 



The Treasurer has paid, as per Warrants Nos to , inclusive, as follows : 

For Weekly Benefits to our own members 

For Funeral Benefits — members 

" " wife of members 

Expense of Nurse or Attendant 

Incidental Expenses in Connection with Burying the Dead 

Aged Home Dues 

Donations to Homes Widows Members Appeals for Aid 

Per Capita Tax to Grand Encampment 

Rent, Fuel, Light and Encampment Room Incidentals 

Postage, Stationery and Printing 

Expenses of Representative to Grand Encampment 

Services of Scribe Treasurer Organist Custodian Janitor 

Regalia and Paraphernalia cleaning or repairing of same 

Premium on Insurance 

Premium on Security Bonds for Trustee and Treasurer 

For Weekly Benefits advanced for Members of other Encampments 



To Trustees, for Investment, by order of the Encampment 



Number members relieved,. . . 
Number weeks benefits paid,. 
Due by members for Dues, $. 
Overpaid by members, $. 



Total disbursements 



Total amt. of Investments reported by Trustees 
Total available resources { L-^arnount.due^the 



4^ 



jm^ 



M^ 



The Trustees report the following Investments : 

Whole amount invested at last report $. 

Interest received during the term $. 

Received for Investment $. 

Total $. 

Withdrawn— Interest, $ ;— Principal, g $. 

Amount Invested at this date $. 

The Investments are distributed as follows : 



No. members at last report. 

Initiated 

By Card or Dismissal Cert.. . 
Reinstated . 

Total, 
Withdrawn 
Deceased 
Suspended . 
Expelled . . 

Total loss. 

Present number members, . 

Increase, Loss, 



Remarks : 



Fraternally submitted. 



Auditing 
Committee. 



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receipts given by the Treasurer; to 
compare the warrants and total the 
amount paid out, and acquire a balance ; 
and at the next meeting of the encamp- 
ment render in writing a financial and 
statistical report, classifying the items 
for which moneys were received and ex- 
pended, and also fill all necessary blanks 
in the book of annual abstracts. The 
report and book of abstract shall be 
signed by the Committee. — 1905, Pa. 52. 



52. We recommend that the Printing 
Committee prepare a Book of Abstract 
Reports combined with a form of term 
Auditing Committee Report, which we 
submit herewith, to be filled out and 
signed by the Auditing Committee; and 
that the same be added to the list of 
supplies for new encampments. — 1905, 
Pa, 95. 

(The form for report of Auditing 
Committee is given on page 15.) 



BALLOT. 

[See Application for Membership, Admission, Proposition for Membership, Charges and Trial, Rein- 
statement, and Transfer of Membership] 



53. Balloting for the degrees in a 
subordinate encampment must always 
be in the royal purple degree. — S. G. L. 
11371. 

54. The Grand Encampment is com- 
petent to determine whether it is neces- 
sary to ballot separately upon conferring 
each degree in the encampment work. 
It has the power to require a separate 
ballot on each or to authorize one ballot 
to be taken on all at once. — S. G. L. 
1401, 1451, 11487- 

55. By the local law in balloting upon 
an application for admission to member- 
ship, one ballot in the Royal Purple 
Degree, if favorable, elects to the three 
degrees without further action. — Pa. 
Digest, 120. 

56. The general law of the Order is 
that the authority to confer degrees 
rests with the subordinate encampments 
and these bodies have the right to confer 
or refuse to confer as may seem best 
to them.— S. G. L. 15974- 

57. The subordinate lodge is the foun- 
dation of the Order, the subordinate en- 
campment of the Patriarchal branch, and 
it is a wise and proper regulation which 
leaves the question of the advance of a 
Brother or Patriarch to higher degrees 
discretionary with them, — 5". G. L. 
15974- 

58. In case illegal ballots are cast for 
membership in a subordinate encamp- 
ment (such illegality being that the 
brothers voting upon such application 
were disqualified by the by-laws), such 
ballot cannot be declared void by the 
presiding officer alone, but may be by a 
majority of the encampment previous 
to admission if the candidate be elected. 
The ordering of a new ballot necessar- 
ily involves the abrogation of the former 
ballot.— 5". G. L. 5193. 



59. An applicant for membership in 
an encampment received two black balls, 
and by the Chief Patriarch was declared 
rejected. After the meeting the decision 
of the Chief Patriarch was discussed, 
and the Chief Patriarch discovered that 
he had made an error in his decision, 
and at the next meeting of the Encamp- 
ment, after the minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and before their ap- 
proval, he stated that he wanted to cor- 
rect his decision, and declare the appli- 
cant elected to become a member, which 
he did. The encampment refused to 
approve the minutes as corrected and de- 
cided to hold another ballot, and the 
applicant received two black balls and 
was declared elected to become a mem- 
ber. 

Held the first ballot was legal, and 
on the next meeting night, when the 
Chief Patriarch asked to correct that 
portion of the minute in which he had 
erred, his correction should have been 
approved. — 1903, Pa. 21. 

60. The question as to whether or not 
a ballot for membership is or is not 
legal, can in no way be dependant upon 
the By-Laws of any encampment. The 
solution of such a question necessarily 
depends upon the general law of the 
Order, as enacted by the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge or the local law as enacted 
by the Grand Encampment. — 1901, Pa. 
144. 

61. A brother was elected to become a 
member of the encampment ; but, prior 
to his initiation he became sick and is 
now left in an unhealthy condition. 
Held that in view of the fact that he 
cannot at the present time truthfully 
answer in the affirmative the question 
in relation to his health which appears 
in the question book, it would be entirely 
in order for the encampment, by a 
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present, to declare the election void. — 
1904, Pa. 259. 

62. A member in good standing of an 
encampment, holding an official receipt 
in date, changes his residence from the 
home of his encampment in Detroit, to 
Jackson, in the same State. He presents 
his official receipt to Wildey encampment 
at Jackson, making formal application 
for membership there. He is regularly- 
elected to membership, and the Scribe 
so informs his former encampment, and 
asks for a withdrawal card for ^ the 
brother. The encampment at Detroit in 
regular form grants the withdrawal card, 
and forwards the same to the Scribe 



of the encampment at Jackson. The 
brother has not yet signed the Constitu- 
tion of the encampment at Jackson, 
but is ready and willing to do so. Dur- 
ing the time the card is in transit, the 
brother becomes ill. The encampment 
at Jackson thereupon declined to permit 
the brother to complete his membership 
by signing the Constitution. Held that 
he is entitled to sign the Constitution 
of the encampment at Jackson. The en- 
campment, having regularly elected him 
to membership, cannot prevent his sign- 
ing the Constitution, simply because he 
became sick after his election. — 1906, 
S. G. L. 440. 



BENEFITS. 

(o) General Principles Governing. 

(6) Attentive Benefits. 

(c) Weekly Benefits. 

(d) First Week's Sickness. 
{e) Funeral Benefits. 

(/) Funeral Benefits for Wife, 
(g) Relief. 

[See Age] 



(o) General Principles Governing. 



63. In the payment of sick and funeral 
benefits and funeral expenses subor- 
dinate encampments are sovereign, both 
as to the amount of such benefits and 
the disposition of the same, so long as 
the benevolent and charitable features 
that underlie the institution of Odd Fel- 
lowship are complied with and the enact- 
ments of their respective State jurisdic- 
tions in that connection are obeyed. — 
5. G. L. 3685. 

64. The payment of weekly benefits 
of some stipulated amount, however 
small, to sick members is the distin- 
guishing characteristic of our Order and 
may be regarded as the fundamental 
principle of Odd Fellowship. The Sov- 
ereign Grand Lodge has uniformly ad- 
hered to, and recognized the right and 
duty of the subordinate encampments to 
tax their members in order that they 
may be enabled to grant a stipulated 
weekly benefit to sick members. — 5. G. 
L. 3584, 4177, 6560, 8533. 

65. This duty, however, belongs pri- 
marily to the subordinate lodge and 
therefore by express legislation of the 
S. G. L. Grand Encampments may re- 
lieve subordinate encampments from the 
payment of such benefits. — 6'. G. L. 
14912. 

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66. In the absence of local law other- 
wise it is legal for an encampment to 
provide in its By-laws that all sick bene- 
fits shall cease at the end of a fixed 
period of time. — 1902, S. G. L. 857. 

67. The minimum benefit law applies 
only to subordinate lodges, and not to 
encampments. — S. G. L. 12798; 1902, 
6^. G. L. 857. 

68. The Grand Encampment is per- 
mitted to provide by suitable legislation 
for the removal of the requirements that 
weekly benefits be paid by subordinate 
encampments. — 5^. G. L. 15074. 

69. A temporary abeyance from bene- 
fits in a lodge under the law thereof, 
where there has been no action of the 
lodge in suspending therefrom, does not 
work a forfeiture of benefits in an en- 
campment where the brother is free 
from indebtedness therein. — 5. G. L. 
3927, 3956. 

70. A brother in good standing in his 
encampment is entitled to benefits from 
same, notwithstanding he is in arrears 
in his subordinate lodge. He is still a 
rnember of his subordinate lodge, and 
his duties as to dues in his lodge do 
not affect his status in his encampment 



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in which, if his standing is good, he is 
entitled to benefits just as other mem- 
bers of such encampments in good 
standing are entitled to them. — i'. G. L. 
15751. 



71. It is not legal to pay sick benefits 
for the fractional part of or over a 
week. — 1871, Pa. 115. 



ih) Attentive Benefits. 



72. It is a sacred duty enjoined by the 
Principles and Laws of the Order to 
nurse the sick, but how this is done is left 
to the local encampment. They can send 
two members each evening, or they can 
assess them pro rata and pay for the 
nurse ; usually when an encampment has 
a member sick, the Relief Committee of 
the different Orders to which he belongs, 
hire a nurse, and each Order pays its 
share. Unless a tax is kept in a sepa- 
rate fund the same is not legal; the 
encampment should assess pro rata, or 
care by draft on members. — 1897, Pa. 15. 

yZ- A Grand Encampment may pro- 
vide that any Patriarch refusing to 
watch with the sick or to procure a sub- 
stitute shall be fined $2 or expelled, sus- 



pended, or reprimanded, after due trial. 
If the Constitution for subordinate en- 
campments does not provide for the fine 
or punishment of a brother who refuses 
to watch with the sick or to provide a 
substitute, such Grand Encampment can 
approve a by-law of a subordinate en- 
campment making such provision. — 1899, 
Pa- Z3, 34. 

74. Where a Patriarch is sick who 
requires a nurse, and the by-laws of his 
encampment say that one dollar per 
night be paid toward nurse hire, and the 
Patriarch is not entitled to sick benefits 
on account of not being a member for 
one year, it was held that he is entitled 
to nurse hire. — 1905, Pa. 22. 



(c) Weekly Benefits. 



75. An encampment having about 
$3,400 invested and a membership of 
thirty-one, cannot legally pay a weekly 
sick benefit of $5.00 or more on that 
amount of capital on ten cents per week 
dues. The Constitution for subordinate 
encampments clearly defines the rates to 
be paid. — 1903, Pa. 23. 

76. Although a subordinate encamp- 
ment may cease to act as such, it is still 
legally in existence until its charter is 
surrendered and annulled. Dues con- 
tinue to accumulate during such period, 
and the obligation of the encampment to 
pay benefits exists up to the time of 
surrender of the charter. — 1902, 5. G. L. 
861. 

77. The Grand Patriarch cannot grant 
an encampment permission to suspend 
the payment of sick benefits for one 
year, but the encampment could amend 
their By-laws to reduce the sick benefits 
to one dollar per week. — 1880, Pa. 98. 

78. The Grand Patriarch has authority 
to grant a dispensation to an encamp- 
ment to change its By-laws, in the regu- 
lar way, reducing their benefits for one 
year to the minimum required by law 
of one dollar, their treasury being bank- 
rupt. At the end of the year the By- 
laws are restored to their old require- 
ment without further action by the en- 
campment. — 1874, Pa. 407. 



79. Where a Grand Patriarch, having 
granted permission to an encampment, 
to reduce their benefits to $1.00 per 
week, for a fixed time, the time having 
expired, the Grand Patriarch may grant 
a dispensation to said encampment ex- 
tending the time. — 1878, Pa. 443. 

80. The By-laws of an encampment 
provided that a member '* if sick or 
disabled and unable to follow any voca- 
tion whereby he may obtain a livelihood, 
shall be entitled " to benefits, and " any 
Patriarch found at work while in receipt 
of benefits " should forfeit those benefits 
during that sickness. A Patriarch was 
so injured by a fall as to be beyond the 
reach of surgery or medicine. His wife 
worked at a sewing machine for the sup- 
port of the family, but occasionally, 
when she was engaged in other duties, 
the Patriarch would take her place at 
the machine. Held, that the words 
found at work had reference to and were 
governed by the words whereby he may 
obtain a livelihood, and that the Patri- 
arch was entitled to benefits. — 5^. G. L. 
3822. 

81. It is not intended by the term 
" found at work " that " works " of 
mercy, of necessity, or of charity, are 
included so as to deprive a brother of 
benefits for following the promptings of 
his heart in doing good to others. — 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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82, An encampment submitted the fol- 
lowing provision in its By-laws for ap- 
proval : " Provided^ That when any 
Patriarch has received in the aggregate 
as sick benefits the sum of six hundred 
dollars, he shall thereafter be entitled 
to and receive during his sickness the 
sum of one (i) dollar per week only." 
The Committee on By-laws were in- 
structed to approve the above amend- 
ment, and all amendments of similar 
character that may be adopted by sub- 
ordinate encampments. — 1881, Pa. 227. 

83. A Patriarch was sick twenty-six 
weeks, and reported himself well, and 
went to work and worked forty weeks 
and then reported himself sick again, 
with the same complaint, stomach 
trouble, and has been sick twenty weeks. 
The By-laws reduce the benefits after 
twenty-six weeks' sickness from $5.00 to 
$2.50; is the Patriarch entitled to the 
$5.00 per week on the last sickness, as 
some claim it is the same sickness? 
Held that the term " sickness," as used 
in the Order, implies that state of health 
which prevents one from attending to 
his ordinary vocation; one who is able 
to work over nine months and then is 
taken sick again, would be entitled, even 
if the sickness is the same, to benefits; 
therefore, the reduction of benefits 
should not apply to him until he is sick 
again for twenty-six weeks. If he had 
worked only a few days or even weeks, 
it would be different. The Grand En- 
campment approved the answer as cor- 
rect as relating to the precise circum- 
stances upon which the question was 
predicated. — 1897, Pa. 15. 

84. An appeal for weekly benefits, 
which the encampment refused to pay 
for the reason that they thought the 
Patriarch able to follow some vocation. 
The appellant was disabled, the result 
of a fractured leg; when well he was 
employed in a mill and also kept a cigar 
store; it does not seem to be disputed 
that he was unable to follow his usual 
vocation. But one of the members of 
the encampment alleges that he did 
attend the cigar store, that on several 
occasions he did serve him. The appel- 
lant admits having served him once only, 
and that he did serve others, not more 
than five or six times in all ; the testi- 
mony of frequenters of the place is that 
he did not attend to the business, but 
that his wife did. The doctor certifies 
that he was disabled. The Relief Com- 
mittees of the Lodge testify that they 
thought him entitled. The attention 
which it is shown he gave to business 



was not sufficient to deprive him of his 
right to benefits. — 1896, Pa. 671. 

85. A obtained membership in this 
Encampment, by declaring that he was 
in good bodily health at the time of his 
application and admission to member- 
ship, when in fact he was suffering from 
heart disease, piles, and rheumatism, and 
for which diseases, as is shown by the 
records of the Examining Pension Sur- 
geons of this District, he applied for and 
obtained a pension in 1882, six years after 
he joined the encampment, but which 
did not at the time of his admission 
prevent him from following his usual 
occupation whereby he earned a liveli- 
hood, or render him in a condition of 
unusual health. He had a right to apply 
for and receive benefits for these dis- 
eases, knowing they had been contracted 
in the serA'ice, and that the fact had 
not been brought to the knowledge of 
the encampment at the time of his ad- 
mission.— 1888, Pa. 563. 

86. The law in the Constitution for 
subordinates is clear and explicit. Occu- 
pation and livelihood are indissolubly 
bound together, and they cannot be dis- 
united without impairing the force and 
meaning of the law. The brother must 
not only be able to follow an occupation, 
but that occupation must be able to 
afford him a livelihood, or at least a 
sum equivalent to his weekly benefits. 
—1890, Pa. 77S- 

87. The benefits to those entitled 
thereto begin to run from the date of 
sickness or disability unless the By-laws 
provide that the same shall commence 
at a different time. — 1883, Pa. 350. 

88. In a certain case it was decided 
that under the By-laws of the encamp- 
ment a Patriarch is entitled in each 
claim for benefits presented to the en- 
campment to a period of four weeks. 
If the Patriarch is still sick he should 
have presented another claim in thirty 
days. It was 

Resolved, That the answer be amended 
by striking out the words " He should 
have presented another appeal in 30 
days," and inserting " He should have 
proceeded as in the former case," and 
when so amended that the Grand Patri- 
arch's decision be approved. — 1885, P<^- 

89. A brother had been in receipt of 
benefits for three years. He then moved 
from the jurisdiction of his encampment 
and remained away for five months, and 



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on his return the committee visited him 
and found him sick. The encampment 
refused benefits because he was more 
than thirteen weeks in arrears and non- 
beneficial. He died two years and three 
months after his return. About a month 
after this a claim was made for weekly 
and funeral benefits, which was refused 
by the encampment. Held, that the 
correctness of the decision refusing him 
benefits never having been questioned 
by the brother it was too late for his 
representatives to do so. — S. G. L. 12554. 

90. When the applicants for a charter 
withdrew their cards to form an en- 
campment, in order to induce members 
to do so, and in order that no member 
should suffer any loss thereby, they 
agreed that in case of sickness or acci- 
dent, they would pay $3 per week bene- 
fits to all Charter members both previous 
to the granting of the Charter, and also 
that Charter members would be bene- 
ficial from the day the encampment was 
instituted. One of the Charter mem- 
bers met with an accident and another 
one was taken sick. Held, that if any of 
the Charter members are taken sick in- 
side of six months they must look to 
the Charter members for their benefits, 
where the Charter members of an en- 
campment agreed among themselves that 
the Charter members should be bene- 
ficial at once and new members six 
months after admission and the By-laws 
failed to say anything about the agree- 
ment. The By-laws of an encampment 
must govern all members alike, an agree- 
ment entered into by some of the appli- 
cants for a Charter is not binding on 
the members of an encampment unless 
the By-laws are adopted covering the 
agreement. — 1884, Pa. 16, 15. 

91. A withdrawal card voted a brother 
severs his connection with the encamp- 
ment and relieves the encampment 
granting it from all liability for benefits, 
whether the card be actually taken or 
not, except when the withdrawal card 
was granted under the resolution of 1906 
relating to the transfer of membership 
and the brother pays his dues for four 
weeks in advance of the date of his 
card. — S. G. L. 787, 916, 1080, 1754; 
1906, S. G. L. 77^. 

92. The Scribe of an encampment is a 
proper officer to whom notice of the 
sickness of a member should be given 
between meeting nights. He should im- 
mediately notify the Relief Committee. 
— 1902, Pa. 250. 



93. A By-law was adopted by an en- 
campment which went into effect No- 
vember 15, and became operative in the 
case of the appellant May 16, reducing 
the benefits to two dollars per week 
after twenty-six weeks' consecutive sick- 
ness. By some oversight the encamp- 
ment failed to notify the appellant of the 
change, and by an error of the officers, 
continued to draw orders for and to pay 
him benefits at the full rate until Janu- 
ary 4, when the mistake was discovered 
and the appellant immediately notified. 

The Relief Committee decided to re- 
tain the two weeks' benefits ($8) last 
drawn, and reported the matter at the 
next meeting of the encampment, when 
it was decided to cover the amount into 
the treasury and to retain the benefits 
drawn in favor of the appellant until the 
amount in excess which had been paid 
appellant had been recovered. 

The appellant claims that the encamp- 
ment had no right to enact the law re- 
ducing the benefits; that, provided they 
did have this, it did not become opera- 
tive in his case at the time mentioned, 
because of the failure of the encampment 
to notify him of the change, and that, 
the officers having made the alleged 
error in paying him, the encampment be- 
comes bound by the act of its officers 
and cannot recover. Held, as to the 
first, the law undoubtedly confers upon 
the encampment the authority to enact 
the law, it becoming operative alike in 
the case of the sick or the well. 

As to the second, there is no law re- 
quiring the encampment to officially 
notify its members of such changes in 
the law. 

As to the third, we do not think it is 
the intent of the law that a barrier shall 
be placed in the way of rectifying errors, 
but to prevent the encampment from 
taking advantage of its errors when they 
would work an injustice to a member. 
No injustice seems to have been done in 
this case, the appellant having received 
the full amount of benefits he would 
have been entitled to had no error been 
made. — 1895, Pa. 499. 

94. The question was asked how an 
encampment could recover the money 
illegally paid the Scribe for benefits, 
and if charges could be preferred against 
him. Answer. The encampment should 
request the Scribe to return the amount, 
and if he refused, they should then de 
duct it from the amount the encampment 
owed him for services. But that no 
charges could be brought, as the en- 
campment did wrong in granting him 
benefits. — 1876, Pa. 204. 



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id) 

95. If the By-laws of an encampment 
provide that it does not pay for first 
week's sickness, then a member becom- 
ing sick before he was beneficial would 
have to serve the probational week after 
he became beneficial. This would make 
the first two weeks after he became 
beneficial entitle him to one week's bene- 
fits. — 1905, Pa. 21. 



First Week's Sickness. 

96. Where the By-laws of an encamp- 
ment provide that no benefits shall be 
paid for the first week's sickness, a 
Patriarch who is sick ten or twelve days 
is not entitled to any sick benefits. 
Benefits for a fractional part of a week 
are not paid. A Patriarch must be sick 
for at least two weeks before he can 
draw benefits, in the encampment. — 1901, 
Pa. 10. 



(e) Funeral Benefits. 



97. No general law of the Order re- 
quires encampments to pay funeral bene- 
fits. This is a matter regulated by local 
legislation in each jurisdiction. — 1905, 
S. G. L. 45- 

98. An encampment cannot legally 
insert in its By-laws to pay a nominal 
funeral benefit of say $2.50 upon the 
death of a non-beneficial member. — 1903, 
Pa. 21. 

99. A non-beneficial encampment can 
pay a funeral benefit provided they levy 
an assessment for same. There is no 
law forbidding this and the Constitution 
for subordinate encampments infers it. — 
1904, Pa. 260. 

100. A father, upon the death of his 
son who was of full age and not under 
the control of his father nor bound 
to him by any legal ties, but liv- 
ing together, is not entitled to the 
funeral benefits, when the funeral 
expenses have been paid and no 
dependent relatives have been shown to 
exist. — 1890, Pa. 40. 

loi. The time of payment is necessar- 
ily the time to determine the competency 
of the claimant to receive the money. 
This question can only be raised after 
all other questions are settled, as the 
question implies a previous settlement 
or agreement as to all other questions. — 
1898, Pa. 363. 



102. The funeral expenses of a Patri- 
arch having been paid and the Patriarch 
leaving no one to receive the balance of 
the fund lawfully, the money will have 
to remain in the treasury of the encamp- 
ment. — 1899, Pa. 418. 

103. A subordinate encampment has 
this By-law : " In the event of the death 
of a Patriarch in good standing, there 
shall be paid to those who pay the ex- 
penses of his burial an amount equiva- 
lent to the amount produced by a divis- 
ion of the invested funds," etc. The 
encampment does not pay a " funeral 
benefit " and this By-law embraces all 
the local law on the subject. This By- 
law " is illegal ; because, iirst, it is an 
indirect attempt at life insurance to an 
amount equal to the supposed share of 
the deceased in the permanent assets of 
the encampment; second, while the 
funeral expenses may be small — say, $25 
or $100 — the amount paid under the By- 
law might be very large, utterly dispro- 
portionate to the expenses ; because, 
third, the beneficiary may not be a per- 
son to whom the laws of the Order 
permit its funds to go — as the widow, 
children or dependent relatives of the 
deceased. While the law recognizes the 
distinction between " funeral benefits " 
and " funeral expenses " and authorizes 
the latter to be paid as separate from the 
former, it does not authorize the funds 
of the encampment to be divided among 
strangers under pretense of paying 
funeral expenses. — 5'. G. L. 8210. 



(/) Funeral Benefits for Wife. 



104. A Patriarch, whose wife dies be- 
fore he had been a Royal Purple Degree 
member six months, in an encampment 
in which a member is not entitled to 
benefits until six months after receiving 
the Royal Purple Degree, is not entitled 
to funeral benefits. — 1902, Pa. 249. 

105. The By-law of an encampment 
reads as follows : 

" The funeral benefits to be paid upon 



the death of a member entitled to bene- 
fits shall be fifty dollars, and upon the 
death of the wife of such a member, 
thirty dollars ; Provided, That no mem- 
ber shall be entitled to receive benefits 
for more than one wife." 

Held, that, {a) A Patriarch who re- 
ceived funeral benefits for the death of a 
wife, and having married again prior to 
the adoption of the above By-law, is 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



entitled, in case of the death of the pres- 
ent wife, to funeral benefits. 

(b) The encampment can only legis- 
late for its members, and for such as 
subsequently becomes members, and 
thereby assent to such legislation from 
the date of membership. The laws en- 
acted by the encampment for the regula- 
tion of its business affairs, must be uni- 
form, and bear equally upon every mem- 
ber. There must be no partial nor ex 
post facto legislation. 

(c) Each one of the then members 
on the date of its approval became sub- 
ject to this provision, and was and are 
bound by it; but from that date only. 
The inquiry can go back no further than 
the existence of the law. Whether a 
member was married at all ; or whether 
he had the misfortune to bury one or 
any number of wives, upon whose death 
he received the benefits allowed by the 
law that time, can make no difference. 

(d) The adoption of the foregoing 
By-law marked a new era in the history 
of the encampment. The first wife hav- 
ing died prior to the adoption of said 
By-law, it does not apply to her in any 
manner. 



(e) The present wife is the Arst wife, 
i.e., the " One wife," of the proviso for 
whose death a funeral benefit is to be 
paid. 

(/) If the present wife should die, 
and the brother should marry again, 
this By-law still being in force, and she, 
the last or third wife, should die, there 
the By-law would apply, and the brother 
would be entitled to nothing as a funeral 
benefit.— 1886, Pa. 283. 

106. The Committee on By-laws of 
the Grand Encampment approved of an 
amended By-law of a subordinate en- 
campment April 4, and forwarded them 
to the Scribe, which were received April 
8th, and the next meeting of the encamp- 
ment was April 21st, when they were 
received and declared to be in force 
from that evening. On April i6th, a 
Patriarch was so unfortunate as to lose 
his wife by death. Held that the Patri- 
arch is only entitled to the benefit under 
the old By-law, as death occurred before 
the receipt of the approval by the en- 
campment from the Committee on By- 
laws of the Grand Encampment. — 1903, 
Pa. 25. 



(g) Relief. 



107. It is the duty of any subordinate 
encampment or general relief committee 
of the Order, on application of a Patri- 
arch and the presentation of a properly 
certified card, to promptly render the 
same fraternal sympathy and attention 
to a traveling or sojourning Patriarch 
being sick or disabled as they would 
bestow on a sick or disabled Patriarch 
of their own encampment, and pay such 
pecuniary benefits as the Patriarch may 
be entitled to receive from his own en- 
campment, as shown by the indorsement 
on his card. — S. G. L. 9406. 

108. The character of attentive bene- 
fits and compensation allowed nurses 
must be indorsed on visiting cards. — 
6". G. L. 9405. 

109. Upon the issuing of a visiting 
card by a subordinate encampment, the 
Scribe thereof shall insert thereon the 
amount of weekly and funeral benefits 
allowed by the Constitution and By-laws 
of said encampment. It shall be bound 
for any relief extended to a Patriarch 
holding such a card to the extent of the 
benefits so rendered. When a subor- 
dinate, encampment or general relief 
committee is applied to for relief by a 
Patriarch holding a card, such encamp- 
ment or general relief committee shall 



require the certificate of a respectable 
physician showing the time that the 
Patriarch has been sick and shall take 
a draft upon his encampment for what- 
ever amount he may have received, 
which, with the certificate, shall be for- 
warded for payment ; provided, that in 
the event of the death of a Patriarch, 
and his being buried by an encampment 
or general relief committee, it shall only 
be necessary to forward the physician's 
certificate, or that of some other respect- 
able citizen, together with his card and 
a proper voucher for the amount so 
advanced. Payment of the same shall, 
in all cases, be promptly made. — S. G. L. 
2150. 

no. An encampment may grant relief 
to a brother of a subordinate lodge 
who is not a m.ember of an encampment 
if he is in distress. — 1903, S. G. L. 38. 

III. When a member of the Order, 
in possession of a visiting card from 
a subordinate lodge or encampment, ob- 
tains money either from a lodge, en- 
campment or from a relief committee, 
the amount so obtained shall be indorsed 
upon such card, with the date and by 
what lodge, encampment or relief com- 
mittee furnished, attested by the proper 
officer. — 5". G. L. 



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BIBLE. 



112. Every subordinate encampment 
must have a copy of the Bible in its 



meeting room while in session. — 1899, 
5-. G. L. zz. 



BOOK OF ABSTRACT REPORTS. 

[See Reports] 



113. Under the present system of 
Annual Statistical and Financial Re- 
ports, it is desirable to have a Book 
of Abstracts to conform to the form 
of Reports now in use. The Committee 
on Printing was therefore authorized to 
prepare a book of suitable form for this 
use, and to furnish a sufficient supply 
for the next two or three years, and that 
this book be added to the list of supplies 
to be furnished all new encampments. 
The suggestion of the Grand Scribe in 
relation to Book of Abstract Reports 
was approved and the Printing Commit- 
tee were directed to prepare a Book of 
Abstract Reports combined with a form 
of term Auditing Committee Report, to 
be filled out and signed by the Auditing 
Committee ; and that the same be added 



to the list of supplies for new encamp- 
ments. — 1905, Pa. 27. 

114. In accordance with the instruc- 
tions of this Grand Encampment, con- 
tained in the adoption of the report of 
the Committee on Legislation, there was 
prepared a book of Auditing Commit- 
tee Reports and Abstract Annual Re- 
ports of Subordinate Encampments. 
Each book contains blanks sufficient for 
ten years. The forms contained therein 
will prove a valuable aid to the Scribe 
and Auditing Committee in rendering 
complete and intelligent financial reports. 
These books are placed on the list of 
supplies for encampments to be sold at 
75 cents each. — 1906, Pa. 234. 



BUSINESS. 



115. It is an established principle to 
require each branch of the Order to 
use regalia suitable to itself and to keep 



as distinct as possible the work and ap- 
pearance of lodge business from the 
encampment business. — i". G. L. 281. 



BY-LAWS— AMENDMENTS— APPROVAL. 

[See Constitution] 



116. Subordinates have no legislative 
power, except to make By-laws for their 
own internal government. — 5". G. L. 1724. 

117. Subordinates may enact their own 
By-laws, provided the same are not in 
conflict with the laws of the Order. — 
1901, 5. G. L. 42. 

118. The By-laws of a subordinate 
must follow the Constitution provided 
for such subordinates in all matters. — 
1901, 5. G. L. 295. 

119. Subordinates have a right to 
make By-laws for their internal govern- 
ment. A Grand Body cannot make By- 
laws for its subordinates, but has the 
right of supervision and may approve 
or disapprove. It may frame a model 
code of By-laws and recommend the 
same to its subordinates, but cannot 
compel its adoption. It can, however, 
enact a uniform Constitution and may 



therein regulate the matter of benefits, 
so far as the general law allows, and 
the By-laws of subordinates must con- 
form to such Constitution. A commit- 
tee of a Grand Body, appointed to super- 
vise the By-laws of its subordinates, 
has no right to make new laws for 
them or to disapprove By-laws which 
are not in conflict with law, and it can 
only amend a By-law in so far as may 
be necessary to make it conform to the 
general or local law. — 5". G. L. 13258. 

120. A By-law can only be amended, 
modified or repealed in the way desig- 
nated by the code of By-laws itself. 
They are not intended to be so ephem- 
eral as to be suspended or obliterated 
on a motion made and adopted on the 
same night of meeting. — vS. G. L. 4149. 

121. A subordinate cannot, by the tacit 
consent of its members, keep in force a 
By-law that has been actually repealed 
and thereby deprive a member of bene- 



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fits to which he is fairly entitled by the 
existing law. — S. G. L. 2790. 

122. When the laws of a Grand Body 
provide for the approval by it of the 
By-laws of its subordinates, such By- 
laws to have force and effect must be 
confirmed in accordance with such laws ; 
but where there is no law or rule of the 
Grand Body on the subject, an amend- 
ment to a By-law changing the rate of 
benefits becomes operative without such 
approval from the time provided for its 
taking effect. Grand Bodies have full 
power and control of the subject, and 
the S. G. L. will not interfere therewith, 
unless upon appeal in the usual manner. 
—5. G. L. 6618, 7173, 8330. 

123. A Grand Body refused its ap- 
proval of the By-laws of one of its sub- 
ordinates in reference to excusing a 
visiting committee and the vote neces- 
sary to order a draft for money on the 
Treasurer. Held, to be an exercise of 
discretion in a matter in which the 
Grand Body had full and complete 
jurisdiction. — S. G. L. 8075. 

124. By the local law amendments to 
the By-laws of a subordinate encamp- 
ment take effect from and after the re- 
ceipt by the encampment of the approval 
by the Committee on By-laws, except 
when otherwise provided by the en- 
campment in the By-laws. — 1903, Pa. 25. 

125. Where a By-law reads as fol- 
lows : " No motion to repeal or amend 
these By-laws or any part of them shall 
be put to vote until the same have been 
read in the lodge at three consecutive 
regular meetings," it is not in order 
to move at the third reading to amend 
the motion, unless permitted by the 
local law.— 5". G. L. 9736, 9802. 

126. A pending amendment to the 
Constitution or By-laws of a Grand 
or Subordinate Lodge cannot be amend- 



ed when under consideration unless per- 
mitted by local law. This decision is 
eminently proper as a safeguard against 
change in By-laws, without due notice 
to the membership being first given that 
such change is contemplated. — 1879, Pa. 
547. 

127. A subordinate by vote adopted 
an amendment to a By-law and at the 
next meeting a motion was made to 
reconsider the vote. The law provided 
that no amendment to the By-law should 
be made, unless written notice thereof 
should be given at the regular meeting 
previous to its being acted on. There 
was also a rule of order that no motion 
for a reconsideration should be received, 
unless made within two meetings after 
taking the vote upon any question. 
Held, that there was no conflict in these 
provisions of law. Until the expiration 
of the time for a reconsideration under 
the rules of order, legislation on the 
subject was not concluded, and the sub- 
ordinate still had control of it. The 
reconsideration of the vote was not 
equivalent to an amendment to the By- 
law. — 5". G. L. 6964. 

128. When an encampment adopts a 
new code of By-laws or adopts amend- 
ments to its By-laws, upon printing the 
same a copy thereof shall be immediately 
sent to the Grand Scribe to be by him 
placed in possession of the Committee 
on Laws of the Grand Encampment. — 
1874, Pa. 54- 



129. A By-law of a Grand Body can- 
not be repealed by a mere resolution, 
when a different mode of amendment is 
prescribed. If a resolution be passed 
professedly in pursuance of a By-law, it 
must presume the law to be valid. It is 
not necessary to submit the By-laws of 
Grand Bodies or amendments thereto to 
the S. G. L. for approval. — 5". G. L. 
1899, 6566. 



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CARDS. 

(a) General Provisions. 

(jb) Defunct Cards and Certificates. 

(c) Dismissal Certificates. 

(d) Official Certificates. 

(e) Visiting Cards. 

(/) Withdrawal Cards. 

[See Admission, Suspension for Non-Payment of Dues, Reinstatement, Transfer of Membership, 

Visitation and Passwords] 



(a) General Provisions. 



130. The S. G. L. has prescribed the 
form of visiting and withdrawal cards to 
be exclusively used throughout its juris- 
diction. All cards must be in the pre- 
scribed form and bear the counter-signa- 
ture of the Grand Secretary of the S. 
G. L. or a fac simile thereof. They 
must be signed by the Chief Patriarch 
and attested by the Scribe of the en- 
campment issuing the same and be 
under seal. They must be signed by the 
holder thereof on the margin in his 
own handwriting in the presence of the 
officer communicating the A. T. P. W. 
— 5". G. L. 108, 649, 677, 914, 2664 ; 1899, 
5. G. L. 32S. 

131. In granting a visiting or with- 
drawal card the highest title to which 
the brother has attained in the branch 
of the Order from which the card is 
taken should be stated therein, except if 
the brother be a Grand Representative 
or a P. G. Representative, then said 
rank should be expressed on the card 
when taken from the subordinate en- 
campment and certified under seal of the 
encampment by the officers issuing the 
same.— 5". G. L. 772,^, 15746. 

132. All diplomas, certificates or 
cards not issued by the S. G. L. and 
attested by its Grand Secretary are of 
no force or effect and are null and void. 
But this shall not be construed to apply 



to certificates signed by Grand Officers 
of State Jurisdictions to members of 
defunct subordinates. — S. G. L. 32^7, 
3135- 

133. Grand Scribes are hereby pro- 
hibited from delivering or transmitting 
visiting or withdrawal cards to any per- 
son whatever, or to any encampment, 
except upon the order in writing, 
signed by the Scribe and authenticated 
by the official seal of the encampment. 
Provided, however, supplies may be de- 
livered to duly accredited representa- 
tives, while in attendance at the annual 
sessions. — S. G. L. 3478, 5197. 

134. All withdrawal cards, visiting 
cards and official certificates for dues, 
assessments, fees, etc., should be signed 
by the holder thereof in the presence 
of the officer by whom the A. T. P. W. 
is communicated. — S. G. L. 15535. 

135. Neither Grand Encampments nor 
subordinate encampments can print the 
certificate for dues prescribed by the 
S. G. L. They are printed by the S. 
G. L. exclusively. — 5. G. L. 15174. 

136. No jurisdiction can lawfully 
question the membership of an Odd Fel- 
low residing in another jurisdiction who 
holds a legal card or official certificate in 
date. — 1902, 5. G. L. 536. 



(Jb) Defunct Cards and Certificates. 



137. Grand Encampments, through 
their proper officers, shall be permitted 
to issue to members of defunct en- 
campments withdrawal cards or dismis- 
sal certificates, according to the standing 
of the Patriarch when the encampment 
surrendered its Charter, and members 
holding such cards or certificates shall 
have the same privilege and are to be 
recognized by every encampment to 
which they may be presented, whether 
in or out of the jurisdiction issuing 



them, as having the same force and 
effect as a withdrawal card or dismissal 
certificate that has been issued by an 
existing encampment in good standing, 
and will enable the holder to join an- 
other encampment. — 1899, S. G. L. 251. 

138. Under the general law Grand 
Bodies can now issue withdrawal cards 
or dismissal certificates to all classes 
of members of defunct subordinates. — 
1899, S. G. L. 267; 1900, 5". G. L. 513. 



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139. The legislation of the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge on the subject of granting 
withdrawal cards and dismissal and de- 
funct certificates applies to members of 
subordinates which became defunct be- 
fore the legislation was enacted. — 1900, 
5^. G. L. 514. 

140. Defunct certificates confer the 
same privilege and are to be recognized 
by every subordinate to which they may 
be presented, whether in or out of the 
jurisdiction issuing them, as having the 
same force and effect as an expired 
withdrawal card that had been issued 
by an existing subordinate in good 
standing. — 6^. G. L. 3876, 8699, 4848, 7763, 
9756. 

141. A certificate issued to a member 
of a defunct lodge does not have the 
effect of a withdrawal card in date from 
a subordinate lodge. It has only the 
effect of a withdrawal card over a year 
old.— 5'. G. L. 14685. 

142. A defunct certificate is distinctly 
different from a dismissal certificate, 
and applies to a different class of 
brothers. — 1900, .S". G. L. 514. 

143. A Grand Body can issue a with- 
drawal card to a member of a defunct 
subordinate who applies therefor within 
one year of the date of the suspension 
of his encampment, such card covering 
the right of visitation for one year from 
the date of such suspension. — 1900, i". 
G. L. 513. 

144. Defunct certificates may be issued 
by Grand Bodies to those in good stand- 
ing when their subordinate encamp- 
ment was suspended and who apply for 
the same after one year from the date 
of suspension. — 1900, 5'. G. L. 514. 

145. Withdrawal cards granted to 
members of a defunct encampment by 
a Grand Encampment are only good for 



one year from the date of suspension. — 
1900, 5. G. L. 513. 

146. Grand Bodies can issue a dis- 
missal certificate or withdrawal card 
to a member of a defunct subordinate, 
according to the member's standing 
when the charter was surrendered. — 
1900, 6". G. L. 514. 

147. It is competent for a Grand Body 
to grant a certificate to enable a member 
of a defunct subordinate encampment 
to join another subordinate, although 
the brother is at the time largely in 
arrears to such defunct subordinate. 
This discretionary power implies, of 
course, a wise and judicious investiga- 
tion of the circumstances of every case 
presented. — .?. G. L. 256], 3087. 

148. A Grand Body can issue a dis- 
missal certificate to a former member 
of a defunct subordinate who was 
dropped or suspended for non-payment 
of dues before the subordinate body 
surrendered its charter. — 1900, 5. G. L. 
513- 

149. When the books of a defunct en- 
campment are in the possession of a 
Grand Scribe he may issue cards to 
former members of the defunct sub- 
ordinate, and he may also issue them, 
on being satisfied of the good standing 
of such member, in case the books are 
lost or destroyed ; provided, that the 
officers to whom the application is made 
shall require satisfactory evidence that 
the applicant is at the time worthy of 
the recommendation to the friendship 
and protection of the brotherhood. — 
6-. G. L. 1059, 3087, 3540, 4848, 8487. 

150. The proper officers in a Grand 
Encampment to sign the certificate for 
a member of a defunct subordinate are 
the Grand Patriarch and Grand Scribe. 
— 1901, 5*. G. L. 48. 



{c) Dismissal Certificates. 



151. Dismissal certificates may be re- 
ceived upon deposit in any encampment, 
but the privilege of visiting an encamp- 
ment shall not be awarded to the holder 
of a dismissal certificate. The certificate 
shall be provided by the Grand Secretary 
of the S. G. L. and be sold as other 
supplies are sold, and at the same rate as 
cards.— 5. G. L. 8487. 

152. A dismissal certificate, when 
issued, shall show upon its face the 



highest degree and rank obtained by 
the Patriarch to whom the same is 
issued. — S. G. L. ^722. 

153. A member suspended or dropped 
for non-payment of dues wishing to 
regain membership in another juris- 
diction than that in which he was sus- 
pended or dropped shall be entitled 
to receive, and the encampment to 
which he belonged shall grant, upon 
proper application, a dismissal certifi- 



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^ate upon the receipt of one dollar. — 
S. G. L. 8487. 

154. In all cases where an encamp- 
ment has refused to reinstate a member 
suspended or dropped for non-payment 
of dues, he shall be entitled to receive 
and the encampment shall, upon proper 
application, grant a dismissal certificate 
upon the receipt of one dollar. — 5. G. L. 
8487. 

155. A Patriarch who is suspended for 
the non-payment of dues, who makes ap- 
plication for re-instatement, and is re- 
fused, and then applies for a Dismissal 
Certificate, which is granted, may make 
application for membership in another 
encampment in the same jurisdiction, 
within six months and be accepted. A 
suspended member . refused re-instate- 
ment and granted a Dismissal Certificate 
is not to be considered in the same class 
as a candidate for admission to member- 
ship by initiation and rejected. He is 
simply refused re-instatement and can 
deposit his Dismissal Certificate at any 
time. — 1903, Pa. 25. 

156. A member suspended or dropped 
for non-payment of dues, after five 
years' suspension, wishing to join an 
encampment in the same jurisdiction. 



shall be entitled to receive, and the en- 
campment shall grant, upon proper ap- 
plication, a dismissal certificate upon 
the receipt of one dollar. — S. G. L. 
8487. 

157. An encampment, upon proper 
application and the receipt of one dollar, 
may, at the discretion of the encamp- 
ment, by a majority vote of the mem- 
bers present, grant a dismissal certifi- 
cate to a member suspended for non- 
payment of dues, to enable such sus- 
pended member to join an encampment 
in the same jurisdiction before the five 
years have expired. — 5. G. L. 8487. 

158. The law in relation to dismissal 
certificates was intended to cover all 
allowable cases, and there is no author- 
ity for a subordinate to grant dismissal 
certificates, except as provided by said 
law.— 5. G. L. 7375. 

159. A Dismissal Certificate cannot be 
altered in any respect except through 
authority derived from the S. G. L. — 
5. G. L. 1 1899. 

160. Dismissal certificates can only be 
issued to members who have been 
dropped or suspended for non-payment 
of dues. — 1900, S. G. L. 513. 



{d) Official Certificates. 



161. The official certificate is a form 
of receipt for dues, etc., to be recognized 
as evidence of good standing and to be 
used in lieu of a visiting card, to be 
universal throughout all jurisdictions 
on the continent of North America and 
to be the only legal receipt for dues, 
assessments, fees, etc., by all encamp- 
ments; to be sold by the Grand Secre- 
tary of the S. G. L. as other supplies 
and to be bound in convenient shape and 
size. The present use and purposes of 
the visiting card not to be abolished or 
restricted. Encampments are not re- 
quired to pay sick or funeral benefits 
or to render other pecuniary aid on pre- 
sentation of an official receipt unless so 
directed by the lodge or encampment 
of which the brother is a member, — 
S. G. L. 14881. 

162. The color of the printing on the 
back of the official certificate shall be 
varied so as to show at a glance the 
branch of the Order for which the cer- 
tificate is adapted, viz. : Red for the 
subordinate lodge ; Purple for the en- 
campment : Green for the Rebekah 
lodge.— 1902, 6^. G. L. 886. 



163. The possession of an official cer- 
tificate for dues paid to a date later than 
when the same is presented, properly 
signed by the Secretary and N. G. of 
the lodge, or the Scribe and C. P. of 
the encampment issuing same, with the 
seal properly attached, is sufficient, 
proper and legal authority for any C. P., 
upon proper identification, to communi- 
cate to the holder thereof the current 
annual travelling password of the Order 
or the Semi-annual Password according 
as to whether it is presented in or out- 
side of the jurisdiction where it is 
issued. — S. G. L. 16136. 

164. An official certificate authorizes 
any C. P. to communicate the A. T. P. 
W. to the holder of an official certificate 
for dues paid in advance, upon identifi- 
cation. — 1899, 5. G. L. 21. 

165. An encampment cannot prescribe 
by By-law that a small fee shall be paid 
by the Patriarch on the issuance of an 
official form of receipt for dues. An 
encampment has no right to charge any 
price for issuing the official receipts for 



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dues, but must furnish same free of 
charge.— 6". G. L. 15174, I5i75. 

166. The attention of encampments is 
called to the advantages to be obtained 
from the use of the Official Certificate 
for Dues, While it is true that this 
form of certificate was originally de- 
signed largely for revenue it is greatly 
to the credit of our Sovereign B'ody and 
to the great advantage of our member- 
ship on this continent, that it has been 
from time to time clothed with addi- 
tional powers until to-day it is no mere 
receipt for dues, but the holder thereof 



carries with him a sure form of identi- 
fication in our Order. Besides being 
the only legal receipt for dues, it is a 
proper credential for visiting in all 
jurisdictions on the continent of North 
America, an order for the A. T. P. W., 
as well as the T. P. W. in the holder's 
jurisdiction; a sufficient evidence of 
good standing in a lodge for an appli- 
cant for admission in an encampment; 
as well as for a petitioner for a charter 
for a new encampment; and is likewise 
a proper credential for the transfer of 
membership from one encampment to 
another. — 1906, Pa. 187. 



{e) Visiting Cards. 



167. Any Patriarch in good standing 
may draw a visiting card, to be valid 
for any reasonable length of time ex- 
pressed on its face, and to be determined 
by the encampment from which it is 
drawn. Any such Patriarch may, with 
the consent of his encampment, receive 
a withdrawal card. — 6". G. L. 677. 

168. The C. P. and Scribe of a subor- 
dinate encampment during the recess of 
their encampment may issue cards to 
members in good standing when appli- 
cation is made to them in writing. All 
applications for visiting cards must be 
acted on by the encampment, except 
where visiting cards are granted during 
recess of an encampment by the C. P. 
and Scribe thereof, and when those offi- 
cers grant visiting cards in recess re- 
port thereof should be made at the next 
meeting of such encampment. The 
above law does not apply to withdrawal 
cards. — 5". G. L. 11 371, 11 892. 

169. The possession of a visiting 
card, the date of which extends to a 
date later than when the same is pre- 
sented, or an official certificate for dues 
paid to a date later than that when the 
same is presented, properly signed and 
sealed, is sufficient authority for any 
C. P., upon proper identification, to 
communicate to the holder thereof the 
A. T. P. W., and if the holder of a 
visiting card or official certificate, as 
above mentioned, is a member of an 
encampment in the same jurisdiction as 
the encampment to which the said visit- 
ing card or official certificate is pre- 
sented, then and in that event the C. P. 
is authorized to communicate to the 
holder of said visiting card or official 
certificate the semi-annual password or 
checkword. — 1899, S. G. L. 344. 

170. Visiting cards entitle brothers 
holding them to visit encampments, dur- 



ing the life of the card, while traveling 
or sojourning in States or other places 
without the limits of the jurisdiction 
in which their own encampment may be 
located. These cards also entitle them 
to all the courtesies of the brotherhood, 
as well as the benevolent usages of the 
Order, if they should meet with accident 
or misfortune; and brothers holding 
such cards continue to be members of 
the Order and are amenable to all the 
penal laws of their encampment in the 
same manner as other members. — S. G. 
L. 677. 

171. The Committee on Printing Sup- 
plies is required to have printed on the 
back of all visiting cards a proper 
blank to be filled by Scribes of encamp- 
ments, upon the visitation of a Patri- 
arch, embracing date, name and number 
of encampment. The Grand Secretary 
of the S. G. L. is instructed to have 
placed on the back of all visiting cards 
in the blank giving information in re- 
gard to benefits the following : " And 

care for its members by ^^at per 

night." In filling said blanks the Scribe 
of the encampment shall write in the 
first blank space either the word 
" nurse " or " appointment," and if the 
word " nurse " he shall write in the 
blank space following the amount paid 
by his encampment per night for such 
nurse. — 5". G. L. 13070, 8962. 

172. It is not lawful for any subor- 
dinate encampment to grant to any 
Patriarch a visiting or traveling card, 
who has heretofore applied for and 
obtained a visiting or traveling card, 
until such card shall have been returned 
to the Scribe of the encampment, or 
until such Patriarch shall produce satis- 
factory proof of the loss or destruction 
of the same, except when a visiting card 
has been used to apply for membership 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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tificate of the Scribe thereof, that the 
Patriarch has been elected to member- 
ship, takes the place of the card and 
relieves the Patriarch of the duty of 
returning the same.— S. G. L. 9009, 
14248. 

173 Upon the issuing of a visiting 
card by a subordinate encampment, the 



Scribe shall insert in the body of the 
card the amount of weekly and funeral 
benefits allowed by the Constitution and 
By-laws of said encampment and it 
shall be bound for the relief extended to 
a Patriarch holding such a card to the 
extent of the benefits so rendered.— 
S. G. L. 2151. 



(/) Withdrawal Cards 



174 Subordinate encampments shall 
vote by ballot upon all applications for 
final cards, made in accordance with 
existing laws, and the affirmative vote 
of a majority of the members present 
shall be necessary to the granting ot 
such cards. Should, upon such ballot, 
a majority of the members present re- 
fuse their consent to the granting of a 
final card to an applicant therefor such 
applicant, upon the payment oi all dues 
and tendering a written resignation ot 
his membership and not being otherwise 
disqualified, shall be entitled to receive 
from the Scribe, under seal, a certificate 
that he has resigned his membership, 
and such certificate shall be sufficient 
evidence that the brother was m good 
standing at the time of his resignation ; 
Provided, that upon the refusal ot an 
encampment to grant such withdrawal 
card the member applying for the same 
shall have the right to appeal tp the 
Grand Encampment of his jurisdiction. 
— S. G. L. 3827. 

175 If a Patriarch holds a withdrawal 
card from his subordinate lodge and 
refuses to pay his dues to the encamp- 
ment, so as to entitle him to a card, 
the encampment has no other redress 
except to refuse him his card.— 6. G. i.. 
1720. 

176 Five qualified members of an en- 
campment are required to constitute a 
quorum, and if a withdrawal card be 
voted when that number of members 
qualified to vote are not present, it is 
illegal, and if the card be issued it 
should be returned to the encampment, 
as the membership is not severed.— 
S. G. L. 8107. 



177. If a brother applying for a with- 
drawal card be absent from the location 
of his encampment so that he cannot 
obtain the A. T.P W^ with his card 
in person, it shall be the duty of the 
proper officers, upon the granting of 
such card, to transmit the same to the 
Patriarch, and also send therevyith a 
letter requesting the communication ot 
the same to him (for form of letter see 
section 697) •—^- G. L. 3560. 

178. An officer of the S. G L. or a 
representative thereto or an officer ot a 
Grand Body taking ^ withdrawal card 
does not vacate his office thereby if the 
same be immediately deposited in his 
Grand Body, accompanying the appli- 
cation for a new charter or if the card 
be within one month deposited in a 
subordinate; provided, that while hold- 
in*^ such withdrawal card and until such 
new encampment be instituted such per- 
son can discharge no official act.— :>. Cr. 
L. 2799, 3000. 

1 70 By the existing law a withdrawal 
card may be declared void for good 
cause existing at the time of granting 
the card but not discovered until it 
has been delivered, or for good cause 
arising between its granting and expira- 
tion.— S. G. L. 1246, 1722. 

180 An expired withdrawal card can- 
not be annulled, as it has no vitality.— 
5". G. L. 2145- 

181 If a Patriarch applies for a with- 
drawal card, pays for the same and also 
pays his dues up to the date of his appli- 
cation for the said card, he has complied 
with the law.— 1901. 5*. G. L. 26. 



CERTIFICATES. 

[See Membership, Admission, Application for Membership, and Proposition for Membership] 



182. Neither a Lodge, nor the Secre- 
tary thereof, has the right to refuse to a 
Brother of the third degree in good 
standing, a certificate of his, standing in 
the Lodge, which certificate is to be filed 



with an application for membership in 
an encampment. — 1900, S. G. L. 518. 

183. A certificate of the Secretary of 
the Subordinate Lodge of which the 



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applicant is a member, with the seal 
attached, shall accompany all applica- 
tions for membersliip made to an en- 
campment, and it is the duty of every 
Secretary to fill out and furnish to any 
third degree member, who is in good 
standing, such certificate upon applica- 
tion therefor. No vote of the Lodge is 
necessary upon such certificate. — S. G. 
L. 4466. 

184. The following form of certificate 
for admission in an encampment may be 
used. 



encampment or by a petitioner for the 
restoration of the charter of a defunct 
encampment. 

By the general law an Official Certifi- 
cate is a sufficient guarantee of good 
standing to accompany a petition for 
membership. (Sov. Gr. Ld., 1899, page 
29). Provided, that the certificate bears 
the rank of the brother as a third de- 
gree member (Sov. Gr. Ld., 1884, page 
9503). It is imperative with the Lodge 
granting the certificate to state in it the 
highest rank the brother has attained 
in the Lodge, especially is this the case 



To the Chief Patriarch, Officers and Members of 



Encampment, No. 

O. O. F. 



ZhxQ Certifies 

That Brother 

is a member in good standing of ' [ l ri 

^° ' ""^^'' the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, and" that he has taken 

the First, Second and Third Degrees of the Order. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, and affixed the seal of the Lodge, 
day of ig 



this. 



185. An Official Certificate or Receipt 
for dues, under the present law, is a 
certificate of good standing in the 
Lodge, within the time covered by date 
thereon, for all purposes in the encamp- 
ment; and can be used in the case of a 
brother applying for admission in an 
encampment, and in the case of a 
petitioner for a charter for a new 



Secretary. 

when such brother demands such state- 
ment. (Sov. Gr. Ld., 1898, page 
15746).— 1906, Pa. iy2. 

186. It is fundamental in the Order 
that no lodge or encampment is required 
to certify to the good character of 
unworthy persons, if objection is made. 
— ^. G. L. 1467s- 



CHARGES AND TRIAL. 

(a) General Provisions. 

(6) The Charges. 

(c) The Trial. 

(d) Appeal. 

[See Appeals, Notice, and Improper Conduct] 

(a) General Provisions. 



187. A brother cannot be punished by 
reprimand, suspension (save for non- 
payment of_ dues) or expulsion except 
upon conviction by his subordinate 
lodge or encampment, upon charges 
duly preferred.— 5. G. L. 5486. 

188. The right to an impartial trial is 
given by the laws of the Order to every 
brother. Except for non-payment of 



dues, a brother cannot be punished by 
reprimand, suspension or expulsion, ex- 
cept upon conviction by his subordinate 
lodge or encampment upon charges duly 
preferred. He is entitled to be present 
when the trial committee is being select- 
ed, to have such notice of the charges 
and time of trial as will permit him 
to properly prepare his defense, and the 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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action of the lodge should appear on 
the records of the lodge, so that the 
rights of all interested may be protected. 
If the record in a brother's appeal does 
not show that his trial was in confor- 
mity with the foregoing, the S. G. L. 
may sustain his appeal and instruct the 
Grand Encampment to require the sub- 
ordinate encampment to proceed to trial 
of the charges in accordance with the 
laws of the Order. — i'. G. L. 14894. 

189. An encampment cannot expel 
from the Order — only from its own 
body; hence trials should, if possible, 
be had in lodges, as loss of membership 
in lodges severs connection with en- 
campment. — vS. G. L. 4467. 

190. There is no such rule in the 
Order as " to change the place of trial 
of the brother." He must be tried in 
the lodge or encampment where he is a 
member and where the charges are 
preferred. No other lodge or encamp- 
ment has jurisdiction in the matter, ex- 
cept in subordinate lodges and encamp- 
ments under the jurisdiction of State, 
District or Territorial Grand Lodges 
whose By-laws make provision for 
changes of venue. — vS. G. L. 4240, 11482. 

191. A copy of the charges, clearly 
setting forth the offense, duly attested, 
should be furnished to the accused, 
together with a like duly attested notice 
of the time and place of hearing. At 
such time, if by sickness or unavoidable 
occurrence, the accused is prevented 
from appearing, this fact, on being 
shown, should give him a continuance 
of the case. A continuance ought to be 
to a day and place certain, and the case 
ought not to be postponed indefinitely. — 
v9. G. L. 4149. 

192. In cases when charges are pre- 
ferred against a Patriarch in any en- 
campment to which he may belong, but, 
from having absconded or from his per- 
manent absence or concealment, he 
cannot be found, so that the charges 
preferred or notice of trial cannot be 
personally served upon him, the encamp- 
ment may regularly proceed with the 
trial upon proof of the fact rendering 
such personal service impracticable, and 
that a copy of the charges and notice 
of trial has been deposited in the post- 
office nearest the last known residence 
of such Patriarch, directed to him at 
such place of residence, postpaid, and 
that a like copy of the charges and 
notice of trial was left at his last place 
of residence, if the same be known; 
Provided, that such papers shall be 



deemed to have been served upon the 
Patriarch only from the date when the 
constructive service above prescribed is 
complete, and provided further that in 
case such Patriarch returns after the 
conclusion of his trial, not having ap- 
peared on such trial either in person or 
by counsel, and asks for a new trial, 
the same shall be granted him. — 5. G. L. 
2507. 

193. An absconding member cannot be 
tried without the issuing of a citation 
pursuant to the foregoing requirement. 
-5. G. L. 3836. 

194. Notice to appear before a trial 
committee must be served according to 
the letter of the law prescribed as a gen- 
eral and local requirement for such ser- 
vice, and when such notice has not been 
properly served the accused should have 
the benefit of the doubt.— 5. G. L. 11893. 

195. When a party is expelled for con- 
tempt in not appearing for trial, the 
record should by some positive evidence 
show that a copy of the charges was 
served on the accused, as well as a 
sufficient notice of the time and place 
of trial, and a summons to the accused 
to be present. — 5. G. L. 5494. 

196. Charges may be preferred to a 
subordinate lodge against one of its 
members for conduct unbecoming an 
Odd Fellow wherever the offense may 
have been committed, whether in a 
Rebekah lodge, in an encampment or 
elsewhere. — 5*. G. L. 11 103. 

197. An encampment should not 
assume jurisdiction to try a Patriarch 
for words spoken in a subordinate lodge 
if the words spoken are only subject 
of charge because offensive to the lodge 
for being spoken therein. But if the 
words spoken are offensive in them- 
selves, if they evidence conduct " unbe- 
coming an Odd Fellow " or the like, 
acquittal or conviction by the lodge 
affords no bar to a prosecution and trial 
in the encampment. Although the act 
may be single, the offense may be sev- 
eral, and the place where the offense is 
committed must generally be imma- 
terial. — 5. G. L. 31 18. 

198. A member of the Order in good 
standing, evidenced by holding an un- 
expired visiting card issued in conform- 
ity to the laws of the Order by his 
lodge or encampment, and having the 
A. T. P. W., being in distress or pre- 
tending so to be and needing money, 
and who having asked for and received 
from an encampment or a member 



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thereof a sum of money under the 
assurance and promise that he will re- 
turn or repay the same within a given 
time or so soon as he returns home, but 
who shall neglect to do so after a reas- 
onable time thereafter without a satis- 
factory excuse being rendered, shall be 
deemed guilty of conduct unbecoming 
an Odd Fellow, and due notice of such 
facts having been officially communi- 
cated to his lodge by the encampment 
so loaning him the money, it shall be 
the duty of his lodge to notify him of 
such indebtedness or loan and to de- 
mand payment thereof, and if he then 
refuse or neglect to pay the same, his 
lodge shall prefer charges against him, 
try him, and if found guilty and without 
sufficient mitigating circumstances, to 
expel him from the Order. If there be 
such mitigating circumstances, then to 
impose such penalty as the lodge may 
deem best. — 6^. G. L. 6310. 

199. In the absence of any local regu- 
lation upon the subject, a member of 
one subordinate encampment, desiring 
to prefer a charge or charges against 
a member or members of another en- 
campment, shall present such charge or 
charges in the usual form to the subor- 
dinate encampment of which he (the 
accuser) is a member. Said encamp- 
ment shall forthwith forward to the 
encampment to which the accused may 
belong a certified copy of the charge 
or charges over the signatures of the 
C. P. and Scribe, and attested by the 
seal of the encampment, and the en- 
campment to which such charge or 
charges shall be sent shall proceed to 
hear and determine the same in like 
manner as if preferred by a member 
of its own body. — S. G. L. 4993. 

200. Members of an encampment may 
be tried and expelled from such en- 
campment for conduct unbecoming an 
Odd Fellow, and in case of conviction 
therein there is no objection to the in- 
troduction of the record of conviction in 
evidence before the subordinate lodge 
or trial committee, stating in general 
terms the nature of the charges and 
without disclosing any of the secret 
records or workings of such encamp- 
ment, properly certified by the officers 
of such encampment under its seal. — 
5. G. L. 1 1 103. 

201. In a subordinate lodge an order 
was drawn in favor of one of its mem- 
bers. The Treasurer being absent the 
Secretary advanced the money, neglect- 
ing to take the order. Afterwards he 
looked for it but could not find it, and 



supposed it was lost. At the next set- 
tlement the Treasurer presented the 
order, and claimed and received credit 
for it. The person in whose favor the 
order was drawn had in the meantime 
withdrawn from the lodge in which the 
transaction occurred and united with 
another, but was a member of an en- 
campment as was the Secretary who had 
been defrauded. He, therefore, wished 
to prefer charges in the encampment 
which the Senior Warden presiding re- 
fused to entertain, claiming that the 
matter was a business matter in a Sub- 
ordinate Lodge, any action taken should 
be commenced there. 

Held that under the Constitution of 
Subordinate Encampments, the range of 
causes triable in encampments covers 
extensive grounds, but the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge has declared its desire that 
trials should, if possible, be had in 
lodges. A subordinate lodge is the 
proper tribunal to try all cases of de- 
linquency when the charge is cognizable 
under the laws. In the case before us 
all the transactions upon which the 
charge is founded occurred within the 
subordinate lodge. The evidence is all 
there. It is a matter peculiarly within 
its jurisdiction and comes within the 
decisions of the Sovereign Grand Lodge 
above referred to. The decision of the 
Senior Warden is therefore sustained. — 
1881, Pa. 205, 206. 

202. The following was considered as 
sufficient to warrant a penalty of expul- 
sion for concealment of a condition of 
unsound health at the time of admission 
to the encampment : 

" That A was a sufferer from subacute 
bronchitis prior to his admission to 
membership ; that he had a " severe 
cold, irritation of throat and lungs, and 
rheumatism " — which was prior to his 
admission to membership ; " that he was 
so bad in health that he admitted at 
various times that he believed he was 
afflicted with consumption — which was 
prior to his admission to membership : 
that A told another he thought secret 
organizations a good thing to belong to, 
as he generally had a bad cold in winter 
anyhow, and he could just report to his 
lodges and would not have to work — 
which M^as prior to his admission to 
membership, and that this condition of 
health was not told the members of the 
Investigating Committee by A, as 
proven by the witnesses." The Investi- 
gating Committee . say that had they 
known that Bro. A was afflicted, as 
testified to by the physicians and other 
witnesses, they would have made an 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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203. An encampment passes a pream- 
ble and resolution of censure. No 
charges had been preferred. Held that 
no encampment can reprimand or pun- 
ish any brother or Patriarch unless 
upon charges regularly preferred and 
commission appointed, and the encamp- 
ment can only act upon report of such 
commission. The encampment then re- 
scinded the preamble and resolution, 
and the Past Chief Patriarch was placed 
as before with no stain upon his char- 
acter. — 1890, Pa. 12. 

204. There is no law or usage by 
which a Grand Patriarch in his official 
capacity can prefer charges to a subor- 
dinate lodge against one of its members, 
nor any rule by which a member of one 
lodge can prefer charges against a 
member of another lodge except as pro- 
vided by law. Charges should be pre- 



ferred as a member of the lodge to 
which the accuser belongs and trans- 
mitted by his lodge to the lodge of the 
accused. A Grand Master is not under 
obligations to forward charges presented 
to him by a Grand Patriarch against a 
member of one of his subordinates or 
to become an accuser, but if the lodge 
to which charges are transmitted refuse 
to entertain them or to try the accused, 
it is then the duty of the Grand Master, 
on being notified of the facts by the 
Grand Patriarch or the accuser, to re- 
quire the lodge to do its duty in that 
regard. — S. G. L. 4993, 10714. 

205. A provision in the Constitution 
of a Grand Body that no officer shall 
officiate in the Grand Body during the 
time of his trial is illegal. — 5". G. L. 
1 1 366. 



{b) The Charges. 



206. All charges against members of 
the Order in this jurisdiction, made pur- 
suant to the provisions of the Constitu- 
tion for subordinate encampments, shall 
be drawn in the manner prescribed in 
the following form, and be signed by 
a member in good standing. The gen- 
eral charge shall be an averment of 
" Conduct unbecoming an Odd Fellow," 
followed by a specification or specifica- 
tions stating the time, place, and cir- 
cumstances of the offense ; and each 
offense shall be the subject of a separate 
specification. — 5". G. L. Trial Code. 

207. Form for charge and specifica- 
tions : 

, 19.. 

To Encampment, 

No. .., L O. O. F.: 

The undersigned, a member of 

Encampment, No. . ., I. O. O, F., does 

hereby charge Brother , of said 

Encampment, with conduct unbecoming 
an Odd Fellow, and the grounds of this 
charge are more particularly set forth 
in the following specifications, to-wit : 

Specification First. — The above-named 

, in violation of the laws of the 

Order, did on or about the day 

of 19. ., (here state the offense, 

place, and other circumstances, and con- 
tinue with Specification Second, etc.). 
Fraternally submitted, 

(Signed) 

— .y. G. L. Trial Code. 

208. The charges and specifications 
shall be presented and read to the en- 

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campment at a regular session, when 
open in the order of " New Business," 
and shall be entered in full on the rec- 
ords. — S. G. L. Trial Code. 

209. A member shall not be put upon 
trial for any offence unless the charge 
or charges are reduced to writing, which 
shall distinctly specify the cause or 
causes of the complaint and the time 
and place of their occurrence, a copy of 
which shall be furnished by the Scribe 
to the member complained of. — Pa. Sub- 
ordinate Constitution. 

210. Form of notice to the accused : 



Encampment, 
No. .., L O. O. F. 



19.. 



Patriarch 

Inclosed in this notice I transmit a 
copy of charges and specifications pre- 
ferred against you by of 

Encampment No You will take 

notice that at the next meeting of this 

encampment to be held on the 

...... day of 19. ., a trial com- 
mittee of five will be appointed in the 
manner provided for by the By-laws of 
the encampment, at which time you may 
be present. If you should fail to appear 
you will be presumed to have waived 
your rights and the committee will be 
appointed in your absence. 
Fraternally, 

[Seal] , Scribe. 

— S. G. L. Trial Code. 



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(c) The Trial, 



211. At the next stated meeting the 
encampment shall, immediately after the 
reading of the charge, if the accused 
Patriarch be present, proceed to the 
choice, as the By-laws may provide, of 
a Committee of Trial, consisting of five, 
who must, if possible, have the same or 
a higher degree than that attained by 
the accused. Any member nominated 
as one of the Committee of Trial may 
be challenged for cause by the accuser, 
accused, or any member of the encamp- 
ment, in which case the encampment 
shall proceed to the election or approval 
of the members against whom no chal- 
lenge has been made. The grounds of 
challenge or challenges shall then be 
stated, when a vote shall be taken, and 
if two-thirds of those voting shall vote 
in favor of the challenged Patriarch, he 
shall be declared elected or approved. 
Should such Patriarch fail to be elected 
or approved, new nominations must be 
made, and proceedings had until the 
committee is filled. Should the Patri- 
arch fail to appear at the time aforesaid, 
he shall be deemed to have waived his 
right to challenge, and the encampment 
shall proceed to the choice of the com- 
mittee as provided by the By-laws. 

The skeleton code, on the subject, 
provides as follows : 

The Committee on Charges provided 
for in the Constitution, shall be appoint- 
ed as follows : The Chief Patriarch 
shall appoint two, Senior Warden one, 
the Junior Warden one, and the mem- 
ber against whom the charge is pre- 
ferred one, but should he decline to do 
so the odd member shall be appointed 
by the High Priest.— 5. G. L. Trial 
Code; Pa. Skeleton Code By-laws. 

212. The Scribe shall certify under 
seal, the original charge and specifica- 
tions and deliver the same to the first- 
named member of the committee, to- 
gether with notice of the appointment of 
the committee as per the following 
form: 

Encampment, 

No. .., L O. O. F. 

•• , I9---. 

Patriarch 

The members named below were this 
evening appointed a Committee of Trial 
on the charges and specifications pre- 
ferred by against 

As the temporary chairman of such com- 
mittee, you will, within one week after 



receiving this notice, call a meeting of 
said committee for organization. The 
committee consists of Patriarchs (give 
names). 

Fraternally, 
[Seal] Scribe. 

— vS*. G. L. Trial Code. 

213. The Scribe shall notify each 
member of the committee, under seal, of 
his appointment as per the following 
form : 



Encampment, 

No. .., L O. O. F. 

, I9...- 

Patriarch 

You were this evening appointed as 
one of the Committee of Trial on the 
charge and specifications preferred by 

against Patriarch 

, the temporary chairman of 

the committee, will notify you of the 
time and place of the meeting of the 
committee for organization. 

Fraternally, 

[Seal] Scribe. 

— 6*. G. L. Trial Code. 

214. The first-named member of the 
Trial Committee shall, within one week 
after receiving notice of his appoint- 
ment, call a meeting of the committee 
for organization, when a Chairman and 
Secretary shall be elected, and a suitable 
time and place be appointed for an ad- 
journed meeting, which shall not be 
held in less than two weeks, at which 
the accuser and accused shall be notified 
to appear and proceed with the trial. 
The notice shall be in accordance with 
the specified Form, and must be served 
upon the parties personally, if they can 
be found, otherwise by leaving the same 
at the last known place of residence, if 
in the town or city where the encamp- 
ment is located, at least ten days prior 
to the time of the trial. If the accused 
resides out of the town, the notices shall 
be directed to his last known place of 
residence and left at the post-office, and 
if the Patriarch so notified shall not 
appear at the time specified, or offer 
satisfactory reasons therefor, the com- 
mittee shall proceed as if he were pres- 
ent, or they may report by resolution, 
to expel the member so refusing to 
appear, for contempt of the encamp- 
ment. — 5. G. L. Trial Code. 



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215. Form of notice to accuser and 
accused to attend meeting of committee. 

, 19.- 

Patriarch 

The Committee of Trial on the charge 

and specifications preferred by 

against , will meet (give the 

time and place), to hear and decide the 
case. You are hereby notified to be 
present and sustain {or defend) the 
same. 

Fraternally, 

, Chairman. 

, Secretary. 

— 5. G. L. Trial Code. 

216. The notice required by the Con- 
stitution for Subordinate Encampments 
to be served upon the accused when 
charges are preferred, shall be served 
by the Scribe, either handing the same 
to the accused personally or serving 
notice by registered letter, the letter to 
be plainly marked " To be delivered 
to the addressee only." — 1906, Pa. 240. 

217. If the brother so notified shall 
not appear at the time specified, or offer 
satisfactory reasons therefor, the com- 
mittee shall proceed as if he were pres- 
ent, or they may report by resolution, 
to expel the member so refusing to 
appear, for contempt of the encampment. 
— ^S. G. L. Trial Code. 

218. The testimony may be taken by 
a stenographer, a member of the Order, 
and afterwards reduced to type-writing 
and signed by the witness. — Pa. Sub. 
Constitution. 

219. At the time specified for the trial, 
the accuser and accused being present 
and answering, the charge and specifi- 
cations shall be read, and the accuser 
be required to make answer to each 
specification contained in the charge. 
Should the accused object to a specifi- 
cation on the ground of indefiniteness, 
the accuser shall have leave to amend, 
provided such amendment be made im- 
mediately. The accused may then plead 
to each specification either of the follow- 
ing answers : 

1. That the alleged offense is not 
within the legal jurisdiction of the 
encampment. 

2. That the complaint contained in the 
specification is frivolous. 

3. Admit the facts stated and justify 
the alleged offense. 

4. Not guilty. 

5. Guilty.— 5". G. L. Trial Code. 



220. When the accuser or accused 
shall notify the chairman of the Com- 
mittee of Trial, in writing, that he re- 
quires the presence of a member of the 
Order as a witness, the chairman shall 
indorse such notice, stating the time and 
place of meeting, and transmit it to the 
Noble Grand of the Lodge of which 
such witness is a member, who shall 
immediately cause the member (or 
members) named, to be summoned to 
attend as a witness. S. G. L. Trial 
Code. 

221. Form of notice from lodge to a 
brother to attend as witness : 

Lodge, No. .., L O. O. F. 

, 19.- 

Brother . .• 

You are hereby notified to attend as 
witness before the Committee of Trial 
on the charges and specifications pre- 
ferred by against 

(state the time and place). By order 
of the Noble Grand. 
Fraternally, 

[Seal] , Secretary. 

— 6^. G. L. Trial Code. 

222. Three members of a Committee 
of Trial shall constitute a quorum and 
be competent to proceed with the pre- 
liminary trial. All questions requiring 
a decision of the committee shall be de- 
termined by a majority of those present. 
— 5. G. L. Trial Code. 

223. Members of the Order shall qual- 
ify under their obligations as Odd Fel- 
lows ; witnesses, not members, shall be 
qualified by some civil officer authorized 
to administer oaths. — S. G. L. Trial 
Code. 

224. Form of obligation to witness to 
be administered by the Chairman of the 
Committee : 

You do sincerely declare upon your 
honor as an Odd Fellow, that the evi- 
dence you shall give in the matter of 

charges preferred by against 

now pending, shall be the truth, 

the whole truth, and nothing but the 
truth. Thus you do affirm. — S. G. L. 
Trial Code. 

225. Depositions of absent witnesses 
shall be procured in the manner pre- 
scribed by the Sovereign Grand Lodge 
of the I. O. O. F. Journal of 1857, pp. 
2738, 2774; Journal of 1858, pp. 2909, 
2926 as set forth herein in sections 226 
and 227. — S. G. L. Trial Code. 



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226. The party desiring to take the 
deposition shall file with the Scribe of 
the encampment the interrogatories he 
wishes to be propounded to the witness 
or witnesses, naming them. The Scribe 
shall immediately deliver, or cause to 
be delivered, to the opposite party a copy 
of the interrogatories. The latter party, 
within one week from such service, may 
file counter-interrogatories with the 
Scribe if he or they think proper. At 
the expiration of the week, or sooner 
if counter-interrogatories be sooner filed, 
the Scribe shall forthwith forward them 
to the N. G. of a lodge near the witness, 
with a communication requesting him 
to take the deposition of the witness 
or witnesses named. Upon receipt of 
the same the N. G. shall, as soon as pos- 
sible, take, or cause the depositions to 
be taken, by some competent member of 
the Order, causing every interrogatory 
to be propounded to the witness and 
the answers to each reduced to writing 
in the presence of the witness, and when 
the deposition is completed shall cause 
the witness to sign the same, and then 
the N. G. or person taking the same 
shall certify the same to be duly taken, 
and such certificate shall be verified by 
the seal of the lodge, and the deposition 
shall then be sealed in an envelope and 
transmitted by mail to the encampment 
before which the trial is pending. De- 
positions thus taken and certified may be 
read in evidence in the cause to which 
they relate. — S. G. L. 2738. 

227. The testimony of non-resident 
witnesses may be taken in the same 
manner. — S. G. L. 2909. 

228. The attendance of a person as a 
witness who is not a member of the 
Order, must be procured by the party 
desiring him. — 5. G. L. Trial Code. 

229. The committee shall keep correct 
minutes of the proceedings, which must 
show : 

1. The date and place of each meeting, 
and the parties present. 

2. The charges and specifications, and 
answers or pleas of the accused. 

3. All points raised and the decisions 
thereon. 

4. The exceptions taken by either 
party. 

5. Parole evidence in full, subscribed 
by the witnesses. 

6. Documentary evidence distinctly 
marked. 

7. Decisions of the committee upon 
each specification and charge. — 5*. G. L. 
Trial Code. 



230. The report must be signed by at 
least three members of the committee. 
— 5". G. L. Trial Code. 

231. The evidence competent to be 
admitted before the Committee of Trial 
shall be : i. Testimony of witnesses who 
shall appear before the committee; 2. 
Depositions; 3. Records of Lodge; 4. 
Documentary evidence, &c. — S. G. L. 
Trial Code. 

232. The committee shall determine 
the admissibility of the evidence offered, 
subject to exceptions by either party; 
the exceptions so taken shall be entered 
by the committee upon its minutes. — 
6^. G. L. Trial Code. 

233. After the direct and cross exam- 
ination of a witness has been concluded, 
the witness shall not be further exam- 
ined or recalled except to explain evi- 
dence given on his original examination, 
or by consent of the opposing party. — 
S. G. L. Trial Code. 

234. Extracts from the records of an 
encampment shall be authenticated by 
the Scribe, under seal. No encamp- 
ment shall be allowed to challenge its 
records or extracts taken therefrom, 
when duly authenticated, and the same 
rule is applicable to lodge records. — 
S. G. L. Trial Code. 

235. After the evidence for the 
accused shall have been put in, the 
prosecution may introduce testimony in 
rebuttal of the witnesses for the defense, 
but for no other purpose. — 5*. G. L. 
Trial Code. 

236. After having heard the evidence, 
the committee shall reduce its opinion 
as to the guilt or innocence of the per- 
son charged, on each charge and speci- 
fication, to writing, all of which must 
be legibly written in ink, and report the 
same, together with the journal and 
the original testimony, to the encamp- 
ment at its earliest stated meeting. — 
Pa. Sub. Constitution. 

237. The report of the committee shall 
state the findings on each specification 
and on the charge, and shall be accom- 
panied by an accurate record of their 
proceedings, rulings, and decisions, to- 
gether with the evidence taken during 
the trial. Should there be a minority 
report, it shall be drawn and presented 
in a similar manner. — S. G. L. Trial 
Code. 

238. The report of the committee shall 
be received and entered in full in the 



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records, without discussion, and laid 
over for action at the next regular ses- 
sion thereafter. The Scribe shall im- 
mediately transmit to the accuser and 
the accused a copy of the report or 
reports, and also notify them of the time 
when the same will be acted upon, in 
the manner prescribed by the Constitu- 
tion for Subordinate Encampments. At 
the time fixed upon to consider the re- 
port the encampment may proceed to 
consider and determine the matter, 
whether the accused brother be present 
or not. — 5. G. L. Trial Code. 

239. At this next regular meeting of 
the encampment the case shall be taken 
up, the findings and rulings of the com- 
mittee read and considered, and all testi- 
mony, if any, bearing thereon ; and the 
encampment shall, by vote, adopt or 
reject the findings which are submitted 
by the committee. — S. G. L. Trial Code, 
Pa. Suh. Constitution. 

240. Either party may object to any 
of the rulings and decisions of the com- 
mittee, when the encampment shall take 
up the report for consideration. — 6". G. 
L. Trial Code. 

241. A member under charges, whether 
previously suspended or not, has the 
right to peruse all the papers and evi- 
dence in the case, and to appear in the 
encampment and hear the report of the 
committee and make his defence. Be- 
fore the evidence is reviewed by the 
members, or a vote is taken, he must 
retire. — Pa. Sub. Constitution. 

242. After consideration, a ballot shall 
be taken, and the case finally deter- 
mined. If a majority of the votes find 
the Patriarch to be guilty, the encamp- 
ment shall then prescribe the punish- 
ment to be imposed. The vote thereon 
shall be by ballot in both cases, but, 
for an expulsion, the assent of two- 
thirds of the members voting shall be 
required. — P. Sub. Constitution. 

243. When a motion prescribing the 
punishment is before the encampment, 
the same shall be considered as any 
other motion, and be subject to the 
same rules ; provided that a motion to 
reconsider can only be made on the same 
evening; and provided further, that 
motions and am.endments relative to 
the degree of punishment shall be 
treated as a blank, and the blank shall 
be filled by voting upon the most severe 
punishment first. If that be lost, a less 
severe punishment shall be voted upon. 



until the judgment of the encampment is 
declared. — Pa. Sub. Constitution. 

244. When the encampment shall have 
taken final action, the Scribe shall at 
once give notice thereof, under seal, to 
the party against whom the decision is 
rendered, by delivering the same to him 
personally, or by leaving it at his last 
known place of residence, or by regis- 
tered letter to be plainly marked " To 
be delivered to the addressee only," 
from which decision he may appeal to 
the Grand Encampment within thirty 
days after the service of such notice, 
by filing with the Scribe a written notice 
of such appeal, and the grounds thereof, 
and also serving a notice of appeal upon 
the Grand Scribe according to law. — 
S. G. L. Trial Code, Pa. Sub. Constitu- 
tion. 

245. In all cases of suspension for 
cause or expulsion the Scribe shall 
without delay, notify the Grand Scribe 
thereof. — Pa. Sub. Constitution. 

246. The Grand Encam^pment shall 
have a book, in which shall be entered 
the names of all persons rejected, sus- 
pended, or expelled by any encampment, 
of which the Grand Scribe may have 
received due notice, with the date and 
cause of such suspension or expulsion. 
— 5". G. L. Trial Code. 

247. On a trial upon a charge of call- 
ing a Patriarch a scoundrel, objection 
was made that the charge was not suf- 
ficiently definite, and the accused was 
denied the right to show the entire sen- 
tence and the connection in which the 
objectionable words were used, and also 
the right to justify the language used 
by proving the truth of the charge. All 
objections were overruled, and the 
accused was expelled, and on appeal to 
the Grand Encampment the judgment 
was affirmed. Held, that the proceed- 
ings were incorrect ; that the specifica- 
tion should have been definite; that 
proof of the entire sentence used and 
also of the character of the prosecutor 
should have been allowed. The judg- 
ment of the Grand Encampment was re- 
versed.— 5*. G. L. 5846. 

248. A charge was brought against a 
member of an encampment for conduct 
unbecoming an Odd Fellow, Specifica- 
tion, &c., that he defrauded the en- 
campment in misrepresenting his age 
at the time of his admission into this 
encampment. A committee was ap- 
pointed to investigate the charge. The 



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committee heard the case and reported 
to the encampment that they find him 
guilty of the charge and guilty of the 
specifications. Action was taken on said 
report. The encampment sustained the 
committee and approved the report by a 
vote of 10 in the affirmative and 5 in the 
negative. 

A motion was made and seconded that 
the Patriarch be expelled from his en- 
campment, and amendment was made 
and seconded that he be suspended for 
one month. The vote was taken on the 
amendment and was lost. The vote was 
then taken on the original motion which 
was lost by a vote of 7 in the affirma- 



tive and 8 in the negative. Is the Patri- 
arch acquitted entirely, or can the en- 
campment take further action to suspend 
him for any length of time, say three, 
six, nine or twelve months? 

Held that the Patriarch is acquitted of 
all the charges pending; the encamp- 
ment should have come to a final de- 
cision as to the degree of punishment 
to be inflicted on the meeting night fixed 
by law for the hearing, the vote should 
have been taken first on the highest de- 
gree of punishment proposed, i.e., to 
expel, failing in this ; a motion could 
have been entertained inflicting a lesser 
degree of punishment. — 1878, Pa. 513. 



(d) Appeal. 



249. Should a member consider him- 
self aggrieved by the decision of the en- 
campment on the charges preferred 
against him, he may appeal at any time 
within thirty days from the date of the 
service of notice. Service of notice 
shall be either by delivering the com- 
munication personally to the Patriarch, 
or by leaving it at his place of residence 
with an adult member of the family, 
or by mailing a registered letter to him 
at his last known place of residence. — 
Pa. Sub. Constitution. 

250. Form of notice of appeal to the 
Grand Encampment: 



19.. 



To Encampment, No. . ., I. O. 

O. F.: 

The undersigned hereby gives notice 
that he appeals to the Grand Encamp- 
ment of the I. O. O. F., from the action 
of the encampment in the matter of 
charges and specifications preferred by 

against This appeal 

is taken on the ground of (here state 
the grounds of appeal). 

Fraternally, (Signed) 

— S. G. L. Trial Code. 

251. The appeal, with the grounds 
thereof, shall be furnished to the en- 
campment, whereupon the appeal, to- 
gether with the journal of the commit- 
tee, the testimony taken before the com- 
mittee, a copy of all the minutes of 
the encampment relating to the subject- 
matter, shall be certified forthwith by 
the Chief Patriarch and Scribe to the 
Grand Patriarch. — Pa. Sub. Constitu- 
tion. 



2S2. Form of certificate accompanying 
return of encampment: 

Encampment, 

No. . ., I. O. O. F. 



19. 



To the Grand Encampment of the I. O. 
O. F.: 

Inclosed you will receive the return 
of this encampment in the matter of 

the appeal of to your Grand 

Body, as required by the Constitution 
of the Grand Encampment and the Con- 
stitution for Subordinate Encampments. 
I hereby certify that the same embraces 
correct copies of all the minutes and 
papers relating to the case in my pos- 
session, or in possession of the encamp- 
ment, and also the original testimony 
taken at the trial. 

Fraternally, 

[Seal] , Scribe. 

— 5". G. L. Trial Code. 

253. The appellant shall also furnish a 
copy of the appeal, with the proof of 
service thereof upon the encampment, 
to the Grand Patriarch. — Pa. Sub. Con- 
stitution. 

254. Form of appeal to the Grand 
Encampment : 

To the Grand Encampment of Pennsyl- 
vania I. O. O. F. : 

The undersigned, a member of 

Encampment, No. . ., respectfully ap- 
peals to your Grand Body from the ac- 
tion of said encampment (state the action 
from which the appeal is taken and the 
grounds upon which it rests). Your 
appellant asks that you will reverse said 
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you may deem the merits of the case 
demand. 

Fraternally, 

(Signature and residence) 

— 6^. G. L. Trial Code. 

255. Should the encampment neglect 
or refuse to forward the matter required 
by law to be forwarded within thirty 
days from the filing of the appeal, upon 



the complaint being made and sus- 
tained, it shall be sufficient cause for 
the Grand Patriarch to reverse the 
action of the encampment and to restore 
the appellant to his former standing in 
the encampment; provided, that an ap- 
peal from any such action of the Grand 
Patriarch may be taken by an encamp- 
ment to the Grand Encampment. — Pa. 
Sub. Constitution. 



CHARTER. 

(a) Charters Granted. 
{b) Charters Forfeited. 

[See Transfer of Membership, Defunct Encampments, Cards, and Certificates] 



(a) Charters Granted. 



256. The following is the form of 
petition for application for a charter for 
a subordinate encampment. 



260. A brother who holds an unex- 
pired withdrawal card from his lodge is 
not a competent petitioner for an en- 
campment. — S. G. L. 6007. 



I. O. O. F. 

^0 tbe (5ranD Encampment of Pennsylvania, 



The petition of the undersigned, whose Withdrawal Cards or Dismissal Certificates from Encamp- 
ments or Certificates of their being Third Degree members from Lodges legally recognized by your Body, 
and the Charter Fee accompany this Petition, respectfully represents that it would be consistent with the 

advantage of the Order to establish a Subordinate Encampment to be located at 

County of State of Pennsylvania, to be hailed as 

Encampment, No under your Jurisdiction. 

Wherefore your Petitioners pray that a Dispensation or Charter may be granted in accordance with 
the laws of your Body. 

This is also to certify that each of the Petitioners has donated three dollars to a common fund, to be 
paid into the treasury of the new Encampment, when instituted, as an absolute and unqualified gift to 
the Encampment ; and it is to be used in defraying the expenses of starting the Encampment, so that it 
may start with as little debt as possible. 



Dated at this . 



.day of. 



,19. 



257. After the granting of a charter 
for an encampment, the name of a peti- 
tioner cannot be omitted from such 
charter, although he has been expelled 
from the Order between the time of the 
institution of the encampment and the 
issuing of the charter. — 5. G. L. 81 13. 

258. A Grand Body has an undoubted 
right to refuse to grant a charter upon 
application. — 6^. G. L. 1743. 

259. It is purely discretionary with 
Grand Bodies to grant or refuse to 
grant petitions for a charter or for the 
resuscitation of a subordinate body. — 
1901, 5. G. L. 273. 



261. Expired encampment withdrawal 
cards may be received on deposit for 
applications for charters for subordinate 
encampments, when the holders of such 
cards are contributing members of sub- 
ordinate lodges, and there is no limit 
to the age of the card. — S. G. L. 3861, 
4993. 

262. Charter members of an encamp- 
ment cannot apply the fees they paid 
to become members of the encampment 
to the payment of their dues. — 1904, 
S. G. L. 539, 833- 

263. There is no provision for fur- 
nishing a subordinate with a duplicate 



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charter, except in cases where the orijr- 
inal one has become mutilated or des- 
troyed. In granting a duplicate charter, 
the granting power cannot change or 
vary the phraseology of the original 
charter. In granting a duplicate char- 
ter, to take the place of one mutilated 
or destroyed, it should be signed by the 
officers of the body granting such dupli- 



265. A special deputy appointed to in- 
stitute an encampment fulfils his duty 
when such encampment is instituted and 
he has made report of the same. — 5. G. 
L. 4240. 

266. The following is the form of dis- 
pensation for the constitution of an en- 
campment prior to granting the charter. 



(BranD iSncampmcntt H* ©, ©♦ 3F., ot iPennsislvanta 



To All whom It May Concern, Greeting: 

Whereas, A legal number of brothers have formally applied for a CHARTER for an Encampment 
to be located at in the County of 

Pennsylvania. 

Therefore, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me as Grand Patriarch of the Grand 
Encampment of Pennsylvania, I do hereby grant this my 

Special Dispensation 



To. 



the petitioners named in the Application for the above Charter, to be constituted as an Encampment 
under the name of 



-Encampment, No. 



And they and their successors are further authorized and empowered to admit, advance and exalt 
duly qualified Brothers to the Sublime Degrees of Patriarchal Odd Fellowship, and to do and perform 
all that a duly chartered Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows may of right do under 
the laws, usages and ceremonies of the Order, and not otherwise. 

In Consideration Whereof and of the issuance of this my Special Dispensation it is specially 
Provided, That they conform to the charges and regulations of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, the Consti- 
tution and By-Laws of the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania and to the Constitution of Subordinate 
Encampments, and that the said Encampment be not removed from the above location without the 
consent of the Grand Encampment. And 

Provided, also, That in default thereof, or any part thereof, or for any other reason that may be 
deemed to be just and proper, this Dispensation may be suspended or taken away at the decision of the 
Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania. And should this Encampment be dissolved or forfeit this Dispen- 
sation, then all the property, money, books and papers belonging to the said Encampment shall become 
the property of the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania. 

This Dispensation to continue in force until the next Annual Communication of the said Grand 
Encampment, and until its pleasure in the premises shall have been made known to you. 

In Witness Whereof, we have subscribed our names and affixed the Seal of the Grand Encamp- 
ment, this day of 19 



Grand Patriarch. 



Grand Scribe. 



cate, with an endorsement stating that 
the charter was issued in place of one 
granted at such time and which had 
been mutilated or destroyed. — 5*. G. L. 
2699. 

264. There is no general law requiring 
the consent of existing subordinates to 
the establishment of new ones in their 
vicinity.— 5^. G. L. 6968. 



267. On and after January ist, 1907, 
Grand Encampments may use the form 
of charter supplied by the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge, or such forms as they may 
severally elect. — 1906, 6^. G. L. 792. 

268. The Constitution of a Grand 
Encampment cannot require more than 
five members to hold a charter in a sub- 
ordinate encampment. — 1902, 5*. G. L. 91 1. 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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(b) Charters Forfeited. 



269. When an encampment becomes 
defunct it is the duty of the Chief Patri- 
arch and Scribe to forward at once to 
the Grand Scribe or deliver to the 
Grand Patriarch's Deputy the Charter, 
Seal, Books, and effects whatsoever that 
may be in existence, including all 
moneys and evidences of investment of 
said encampment. — 1906, Pa. 174. 



270. The officers will also call the 
attention of the members of a defunct 
encampment to the necessity of at once 
applying for certificates to render them 
eligible to admission in any other en- 
campment. This is particularly neces- 
sary in a case where the records have 
been destroyed. — 1906, Pa. 175. 



CHIEF PATRIARCH. 

[See Eligibility to Office, Honors of Office, Charges and Trial, Committees, and Officers of Encampments] 



271. The general law does not require 
that before a not properly qualified 
Patriarch can be elected Chief Patriarch 
from the floor, every Past Chief Patri- 
arch must be first elected to the office 
and decline. If all the Past Chief Patri- 



archs present decline, or being present 
assent to the election from the floor, a 
mere formal election, followed by a 
declination, is not necessary. — 1906, S. 
G. L. 440. 



COMMISSIONER. 

[See Appeals, and Charges and Trial] 



272. The Commissioner is made judge 
of the time and place of meeting, to take 
testimony, subject to appeal from any 
unreasonable act in such determination, 
and removal for any unjust exercise of 
the power given him. — 6'. G. L. 12102. 

273. Where it appears that the Com- 
missioner had been unable to proceed 
with a case owing to sickness, the 



encampment should appoint some one 
else to take testimony. — 1895, Pa. 455. 

274. An encampment cannot appoint 
two Commissioners to take testimony, 
one resident of the same place as the 
claimant and the other resident of the 
same place as the location of the en- 
campment. — 1896, Pa. 531. 



COMMITTEES. 

[See Auditing Committee] 



275. A committee should attend to 
matters assigned to them, within a reas- 
onable time. Should they not make a 
report in due season, they may be in- 



structed to report at a certain time, or 
they may, on motion, be discharged 
from further consideration of the sub- 
ject. — 1902, Pa. 250. 



COMMITTEE ON ELECTION RETURNS. 

[See Elections] 



276. The law specifically states when 
the Committee on Election Returns shall 
meet, and also states that their second 
meeting shall be final. It is not within 
the province of the Grand Patriarch, 
after they have held their final meeting 
and made out their report in legal form, 
to reconvene the committee for any 
purpose whatever. Such reconvening 
of the committee can be ordered only by 
the Grand Encampment. — 1904, Pa. 251. 

277. The report of the Committee on 
Election Returns is made to the Grand 
Encampment, and not to the Grand 
Patriarch. Therefore it is not within 



his province to alter the report, as the 
report is not made to him. His certifi- 
cation of the election of the Grand 
Representative must be made solely on 
his knowledge as gained from the re- 
port of the Committee on Election Re- 
turns wliile passing through his hands, 
his duties in this connection being sim- 
ply ministerial and perfunctory, and not 
in any sense judicial. — 1904, Pa. 252. 

278. The laws of the Grand Encamp- 
ment state that the committee on election 
returns shall prepare a report which is to 
be presented to the annual communica- 
tion of the Grand Encampment. The 



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report of the committee is presented to 
the Grand Encampment and not to the 
Grand Patriarch, and is, therefore, sub- 
ject to the action of the Grand Encamp- 
ment alone. — 1904, Pa. 251. 

279. The right of the Committee on 
Election Returns to construe the law, 
as well as to judge the facts that relate 
to the matters pertaining to the counting 
of the election returns, is one that seems 
to have been given by custom rather 
than by any distinct statement of the 
law, although the designation of the 
Chairman of the Committee on Election 
Returns as "Judge," together with the 
reference in the laws to "valid and in- 
valid returns," indicate that the com- 
mittee is clothed to a limited extent with 
judicial authority to determine the legal- 
ity of returns, as well as with clerical 
power to compute said returns. The 
full extent of their authority subject to 
the laws of the Sovereign Grand Lodge 
is for the interpretation of the Grand 
Encampment, to whom their report is 
presented. — 1904, Pa. 250. 

280. There is no precedent for the 
Grand Patriarch overruling the report 



of the Committee on Election Returns, 
nor any authority in him to reconvene 
the committee for the purpose of mak- 
ing any alterations in their report or 
reconsidering any decisions they may 
have made. The law specifically states 
that " not earlier than fifteen days nor 
later than thirty days after the first 
meeting of the Committee on Election 
Returns, the committee shall meet and 
finally sum up the valid votes that have 
been cast and prepare their report for 
presentation to the annual communica- 
tion of the Grand Encampment. There 
is no provision in the law for any sub- 
sequent meeting of the committee. — 
1904, Pa. 250. 

281. As the Grand Patriarch is power- 
less to reconvene the committee, it is 
unnecessary to have the Grand Pa.tri- 
arch rule as to whether the committee 
erred or did not err in their decision in 
refusing to count certain election re- 
turns deemed by them to be fatally de- 
fective. This question, and the various 
issues arising therefrom, can be _ con- 
sidered by the Grand Encampment itself, 
and should not be pre- judged by the 
Grand Patriarch.— 1904, Pa. 252. 



COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. 

282. The Journal of 1904 was directed printing of the Journal and preliminary 
to be printed in six-point leaded and ten- reports are to be based on eight-point 
point solid, and future contracts for the solid and ten-point solid. — 1904, Pa. 32$. 



COMPETITIVE DEGREE WORK. 

[See Degrees] 



283. Resolved, That the Grand En- 
campment appropriate annually the sum 
of Three Hundred Dollars to be offered 
as prizes for competitive degree work m 
subordinate encampments in this juris- 
diction. These contests to be held at 
the time and place of the Annual Com- 
munications of the Grand Encampment 
of Pennsylvania; and further. 



Resolved, That the Grand Patriarch 
appoint annually a committee of five to 
be known as the Committee on Competi- 
tive Degree Work with full power to 
said committee to fix the amount and 
number of prizes and to make such rules 
and regulations as are required in such 
contests.— 1906, Pa. 247, 257. 



CONSOLIDATION OF ENCAMPMENTS. 

, [See Charter] 



284. Grand Encampments are fully 
authorized and empowered to enact such 
legislation within their respective Grand 
jurisdictions, as shall fully authorize the 
consolidation of two or more subor- 
dinate encampments into one encamp- 
ment. The S. G. L., having authorized 
consolidations to be made under such 
rules and regulations as may be pre- 



scribed in the several Grand Bodies, 
it is their province to legislate on the 
subject and arrange details as to the 
disposition of records, property, etc., be- 
longing to the subordinates that may be 
consolidated.— 5". G. L. 9755. 

285. The S. G. L. legalized the con- 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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prior to the 23d day of September, 1883. 
—S. G. L. 9770. 

286. Grand Encampments are author- 
ized to effect the consolidation of sub- 
ordinate encampments with such name 
and number and under such conditions as 
they may deem proper. — 1899, S. G. L. 29. 

287. The law authorizing the consoli- 
dation of subordinates, by and through 
the legislation of Grand Encampments, 
is secondary to the minimum condition 
for granting charters for encampments. 
In other words, so long as the number 
of members in either encampment de- 
siring to retain the charter of an en- 
campment and work thereunder, is equal 
to that prescribed by law as the mini- 
mum number of applicants or petitioners 
to whom a charter will be given, said 
charter cannot be taken from them by 
forcing consolidation with another en- 
campment. The law allowing Grand 
Bodies to legislate for consolidations is 
permissive and not compulsory on law- 
ful minorities. It is illegal to consoli- 
date two encampments when five mem- 
bers of either one of the encampments 
are opposed to such consolidation. — 
5. G. L. 11484; 1901, vS". G. L. 40. 

288. Under the laws for the consoli- 
dation of encampments, the merging or 
joining of two bodies cannot annihilate 
either. By the act of merging the 
rights, properties and franchises of each 
are united together, forming in fact, but 
perhaps not in name, a new body or 
encam.pment possessing the rights, 
powers and franchises of both. The 
suspended members of both would sus- 
tain the same relation to the consoli- 
dated body that they did to their own 
body before consolidation. This being 
so, of course the new encampment can 
reinstate or grant dismissal certificates 
to the suspended members of either, 
and can annul clearance cards granted 
within a year. 

The idea has prevailed that by 
the consolidation of two encampments, 
one of them becomes a defunct encamp- 
ment. It is difficult to reconcile this 
with sound reason, because, if one be- 
comes defunct, why does not the other 
one also become defunct? It is not the 
same encampment as it was before. 
The retaining of the name of one in 
preference to the other certainly cannot 
make the difference. The Grand En- 
campment doubtless has the right to 
give a new name and number to the 
consolidated body, and if this be so there 
would be two defunct bodies instead 



of one, and it can make no difference 
whether the charters, one or both, are re- 
tained by the consolidated encampment 
as mementos of their former condition, 
or whether they be placed among the 
archives of the Grand Encampment. It 
is the thing, the substance, we are look- 
ing at and not the paper. — S.G.L. 11101. 

289. The following articles of agree- 
ment for consolidation of encampments 
were approved by the Grand Encamp- 
ment in annual session : 

This Agreement, Made the day of 

19 , between Patriarchs , a Commit- 
tee duly appointed and empowered by 

Encampment, No. , I. O. O. F., of 
the first part, and Patriarchs , a Com- 
mittee duly appointed and empowered 
by Encampment, No. , I. O. O. F., 
of the second part witnesseth : 

That the party of the first part hereby 
agrees to consolidate Encampment, 
No. , I. O. O. F., of the Jurisdiction 
of Pennsylvania, with Encampment, 
No. , I. O. O. R, of the same Jurisdic- 
tion, and agrees that the details of the 
said consolidation shall be as follows : 

1st. The Charter of Encampment, 
No. , I. O. O. F., shall be retained as 
the Charter of the consolidated Encamp- 
ment, and the Charter, seal and rituals 
of Encampment, No. , I. O. O. F., 
shall, upon the carrying into effect of 
this Agreement, be delivered to the 
Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, 
I. O. O. F. 

2d. The night of 19 and the place 
of meeting of Encampment, No. , 
I. O. O. R, situate is hereby agreed 
upon as the time when and the place 
where the two Encampments shall meet 
to consolidate into one Encampment. 

3d. The Chief Patriarch and Scribe 
of the Encampment whose Charter is 
not retained is hereby authorized to sign 
the Constitution of the other Encamp- 
ment for all the members of the En- 
campment whose Charter is not retained, 

4th. That all the members in good 
standing in each of said Encampments 
(and by good standing as used in refer- 
ence to the consolidation of these two 
Encampments, is meant all members on 
the books of each of said Encampments 
who are not suspended), are, by this 
consolidation, to become members of 
such consolidated Encampment. 

5th. The suspended members of both 
of said Encampments are to retain the 
same relation to the consolidated En- 
campment as they did to their own 
Encampments before the consolidation. 

6th. That all the funds, property and 
record books belonging to each oif said 



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Encampments shall belong to and be 
turned over to the consolidated Encamp- 
ment. 

7th. The Chief Patriarch and Scribe 
of the Encampment whose Charter is 
not to be retained shall immediately 
after the two Encampments meet to- 
gether and consolidate into one Encamp- 
ment, deliver to the Grand Scribe, the 
Charter, Seal and Rituals of the said 
Encampment. 

8th. Members of either Encampment 
who desire to join other Encampments, 
after consolidation, may obtain With- 
drawal Cards or Dismissal Certificates 
or may resign their membership, as the 
case may be, from the consolidated En- 
campment in the same manner that they 
would have been entitled to sever their 
membership from their old Encamp- 
ments respectively. 

gth. The By-laws of the Encampment 
whose Charter is retained shall be the 
By-laws of the consolidated Encamp- 
ment. 

loth. The consummation of this 
Agreement is predicated upon the ap- 
proval of the same by the Board of 
Grand Officers and the issuance by the 
Grand Patriarch of a Dispensation, cer- 
tifying to the consolidation. 
^ It is further agreed between the par- 
ties hereto, that each shall submit to 
their respective Encampments the fol- 
lowing resolution, and recommend its 
adoption, and when it is adopted by both 
Encampments they will jointly submit 
the same to the Grand Encampment of 
Pennsylvania. I. O. O. F., or the Board 
of Grand Officers for approval, viz. : 

Resolved, That Encampment, No. 
, I. O. O. F., and Encampment, 
No. , I. O. O. F,, consolidate under 
the name of Encampment, No. 

, I. O. O. F., in accordance with 
the Articles of Agreement entered into 
by the respective Committees of said En- 
campments on the day of ,19 

Committee of Encampment No. 
Committee of Encampment No. 

This is to_ Certify, That at a regular 

stated meeting of Encampment, No. 

, held on the day of 19 , the 

foregoing Articles of Agreement were 

duly adopted. 

Chief Patriarch. 

[Seal] Attest: Scribe. 

This is to Certify, That at a regular 

stated meeting of Encampment, No. 

, held on the day of 19 , the 

foregoing Articles of Agreement were 

duly adopted. 

Chief Patriarch. 

[Seal] Attest: Scribe. 

— 1906, Pa. 189. 



290. The following form of certificate 
for consolidated encampments was ap- 
proved by the Grand Encampment in 
annual session : 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
To All whom it may Concern: 

The Grand Encampment of Pennsyl- 
vania, I. O. O. F., by authority of a 
Charter granted to it by the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., hereby certi- 
fies that. 

Whereas, Encampment, No. , 
was instituted an Encampment of the 
I. O. O. F., with a Warrant or Dispen- 
sation, dated at the day of i , 
and 

Whereas, Encampment, No. , 
was instituted an Encampment of the 
I. O. O. F., with a Warrant or Dispen- 
sation, dated at the day of i, , 
and 

Whereas, Both the said Encamp- 
ments were and are in legal existence 
and lawful affiliation with the Grand 
Encampment of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. 
F., at a time when, in accordance with 
the laws of the Order for such cases 
made and provided, they entered into 
and mutually exchanged Articles of 
Agreement to consolidate and become 
one Encampment, whereby the Charter 
of the said Encampment, No. , was 
retained as the Charter of the said con- 
solidated Encampment, and the said 
Encampment, No. , hath, in accord- 
ance with said Agreement, delivered to 
the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, 
I. O. O. F., its Charter or Warrant of 
Dispensation, so that the said Encamp- 
ments became and are in law one En- 
campment, to be hailed and known 
under the name and title written in the 
Charter or Warrant of Dispensation of 
the said Encampment, No. , where- 
by the rights, properties and franchises 
of each are united together, forming, in 
fact, under the name of the Encamp- 
ment the Charter of which was retained, 
a new Body or Corporation, possessing 
the rights, powers and franchises of 
both. 

The suspended members of both En- 
campments will sustain the same rela- 
tion to the consolidated Encampment 
that they did to their own Encampment 
before consolidation. All members in 
good standing in each of the said En- 
campments thereby became members of 
such consolidated Encampment, and by 
good standing, as used in reference to 
the consolidation of these Encampments, 
is meant all the members on the books 
of the respective Encampments, who at 
the time of consolidation are not sus- 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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and record books belonging to each of 
said Encampments, shall belong and be 
turned over to the consolidated En- 
campment, and 

Whereas, The said Articles of Agree- 
ment having been previously submitted 
to the Board of Grand Officers and ap- 
proved by them in accordance with law ; 

Now THEREFORE BE IT KNOWN, That 

this Dispensation is issued for the pur- 
pose of evidencing that the said consoli- 
dation has been made on this day of 
19 , and completed in accordance 
with the laws of this Jurisdiction, and 



that the consolidated Encampments, act- 
ing under the Charter retained, is by 
said consolidation vested with the rights, 
privileges, properties and membership of 
both of said Encampments above men- 
tioned. 

Given under my hand and the seal of 
the Grand Encampment of Pennsylva- 
nia, I. O. O. F., this day of , one 
thousand nine hundred and , and of 
our Order the 

Grand Patriarch. 

Attest: , Grand Scribe. 

— 1906, Pa. 191. 



CONSTITUTION— AMENDMENTS— APPROVAL. 

[See By-Laws] 



291. While the S. G. L. does not 
claim the power to dictate to a Grand 
Body the particular form in which it 
shall frame its organic law, it does 
appear to be eminently proper that what- 
ever form may be adopted, its provis- 
ions should be as simple, direct and com- 
prehensive as possible, without unneces- 
sary prolixity, and free from any 
clauses, sentences or paragraphs that 
are imperfect or incomplete in them- 
selves and incapable of being under- 
stood without resorting to other and 
entirely distinct enactments of other and 
entirely distinct bodies or authorities. — 
5. G. L. 3268. 

292. A Grand Encampment, desiring 
to submit its constitution or amendments 
thereto to the S. G. L. for approval, 
shall be required first to furnish the 
Grand Secretary of the S. G. L. a com- 
plete copy of the constitution, with all 
amendments thereto, accompanied by a 
certificate from the Grand Encampment, 
attested by the Grand Scribe and the seal 
of the Grand Body, attached, and to 
furnish the documents in such form 
as to distinguish by marginal memo- 
randa or otherwise such parts of the 
revised instrument as have not already 
received the sanction of the S. G. L. — 
S. G. L. 4929, 2994. 

293. Constitutions of Grand Bodies 
and all amendments thereto are not 
operative or of any binding force until 
approved by the S. G. L. If approved, 
they at once become the organic law in 
full force and do not depend for validity 
upon any future action of the subor- 
dinate Grand Body whatever. If error 
be found, the error must be corrected. — 
5". G. L. 9855, 11892; 1899, S. G. L. 38. 

294. A proposed amendment cannot 
be amended when it comes up for ac- 



tion, where the Constitution provides 
that it shall be altered or amended only 
by a proposition in writing at a regular 
annual communication, which proposi- 
tion shall be entered upon the journal, 
and shall not be acted upon until the 
next annual communication of the Grand 
Body, at which time such amendment 
may be considered, and if agreed to by 
a two-thirds vote of the representatives 
present shall be adopted. — S. G. L. 7024, 
7419- 

295. A proposed amendment to the 
Constitution of a Grand Body will not 
be approved by the S. G. L. It must 
be first adopted by the State Grand 
Body. — S. G. L. 4840. 

296. A Grand Encampment, amending 
its Constitution as to the time of an- 
nual meeting in accordance with its pro- 
visions, must meet at the time fixed by 
the amendment. — 5*. G. L. 14683. 

297. Provisions, fundamental in char- 
acter and necessary to the perfect exist- 
ence of an encampment, should be placed 
in the subordinate Constitution and 
not in the By-laws of the subordinate 
encampment. — 5. G. L. 1271. 

298. Grand Bodies, being expressly de- 
clared the legislative heads of the Order 
in the several jurisdictions, have unques- 
tionably the power to adopt a uniform 
system of Constitutions for their subor- 
dinates, and the subordinates are bound 
to conform to such Constitutions, al- 
though working under Constitutions 
approved by the S. G. L. — S. G. L. 1235. 

299. They may in such Constitutions 
fix and establish a uniform and specific 
amount of benefits and for degrees, and 
the subordinates must conform thereto. 
S. G. L. 9275. 



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300. Grand Bodies have power to 
make general laws for the government 
of subordinates, and the local wants of 
their subordinates should be their guide 
upon the subject. Subordinates have 
no legislative power whatever^ except 
to make By-laws for their own internal 
government. — 5". G. L. 1724. 

301. An amendment to the Constitu- 
tion of subordinates by a Grand Body, 
in conflict with its own organic law, is 
illegal.— 5. G. L. 9503. 

302. A Grand Patriarch has no author- 
ity to suspend the Constitution of _ a 
subordinate encampment, and any dis- 
pensation by a Grand Patriarch in con- 
flict with such Constitution is void. — 
S. G. L. 4624. 

303. A resolution, granting a dispen- 
sation for one year to subordinates to 
receive members at a less sum than the 
constitutional limit, is in effect an 
amendment to the Constitution, and 
where the requirement of the law is that 
it requires a two-thirds vote to amend 
the Constitution, such resolution passed 
by a majority vote of the Grand Body 
does not amend it. — S. G. L. 11246. 

304. An amendment to the Constitu- 
tion of the Grand Encampment becomes 
effective when approved by the Sover- 
eign Grand Lodge or by the Grand Sire. 
—1906, 5". G. L. 443. 

305. When an amendment to the Con- 
stitution of a Grand Encampment has 
to lie over under the law until the suc- 
ceeding session, the Grand Encampment 
cannot at such second session change or 
alter such proposed amendment. — 1899, 
S. G. L. 38. 

306. The law providing for the amend- 
ment to the Constitution of a Grand 
Body does not properly apply to the 
work of framing a new Constitution for 
the Grand Body. A committee for such 
purpose should be appointed with in- 
structions to report at the next annual 
session. — 5". G. L. 11894. 



307. When the Constitution of a 
Grand Body provided that amendments 
to the same should lie over one year; 
Held, that when a committee was ap- 
pointed to revise the Constitution and 
By-laws of the Grand Body and made 
their report at the next annual communi- 
cation, wherein various changes were 
made in the Constitution, the adoption 
of such report at that session was illegal. 
— 6^. G. L. 15749- 

308. The true reason for the adoption 
of Constitutional provisions which re- 
quire that amendments to the Constitu- 
tions of Grand Encampments shall lie 
over for a year before being adopted, 
and for the general law, which requires 
such amendments to be voted on in pre- 
cisely the shape in which they have been 
so laid over, is not that members of 
such Grand Body may be selected with 
reference to the adoption of some amend- 
ment or amendments, of a nature not spe- 
cifically known, which may be drafted 
and submitted by a committee, but is, that 
such members may be selected with ref- 
erence to the adoption or rejection 
of some specific amendment or amend- 
ments, whose exact form is known, and 
that all members of the Order may have 
ample time to express themselves in ref- 
erence to the exact matters to be voted 
on.— 5". G. L. 12575, 12625. 

309. A revised Constitution must be 
passed as an amendment. When a Con- 
stitution of a Grand Body has been re- 
vised by a committee appointed for that 
purpose and sundry amendments made 
thereto, the revised instrument comes 
under the requirements of the old one 
in force. — S. G. L. 12625. 

310. A resolution passed with all the 
formalities to amend the Constitution 
of a Grand Body does legally amend 
the Constitution in the particulars speci- 
fied therein, although it does not refer 
to the section which it amends, the in- 
tention of the mover and of the Body 
itself being too plain for cavil. The 
lack of form does not affect the sub- 
stance. — S. G. L. 7760. 



CONTINGENT FUND. 

[See Funds, and Appropriations] 



311. Grand Encampments may permit 
subordinate encampments within their 
respective jurisdictions to provide by By- 
law, that at the close of each term there 
may be set apart a percentage of receipts 
from dues as a contingent fund, as fol- 
lows: When the annual dues are four 



dollars or less, a sum not exceeding 
five per cent. When the annual dues 
are five dollars, a sum not exceed- 
ing ten per cent. When the annual 
dues are six dollars or more, a sum 
not exceeding twenty per cent. — 1906, 
5^. G. L. 706. 



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312. The subordinate encampments in 
this jurisdiction are hereby authorized to 
provide by By-law to set aside a sum 
not exceeding five per cent, of their 
annual receipts from dues as a contin- 
gent or special fund, to be expended in 



the payment of necessary and proper 
obligations, which every subordinate en- 
campment must meet, and for which 
purpose such subordinate encampments 
under existing laws cannot expend their 
funds. — 1906, Pa. 261. 



DECISIONS. 

[See Grand Patriarch] 



313. When the Grand Patriarch has 
presented to him a question involving a 
determination of general laws, for which 
he can find no complete and satisfactory 
answer in the code of Pennsylvania 
Patriarchal laws, or in the subsequent de- 
cisions and enactments of the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge, which are declared to be 



encampment decisions or encampment 
laws, he is requested to submit the same 
to the Grand Sire for decision. The 
purpose being that this jurisdiction shall 
have an authorized decision from the 
only source whence can come decisions 
of general law. — 1906, Pa. 241. 



DEFUNCT ENCAMPMENTS. 

[See Charter, Funds, Cards, and Certificates] 



314. On the dissolution of a subor- 
dinate all its assets become the prop- 
erty of the Grand Encampment. — S. G. 
L. 15744- 

315. The funds and property of de- 
funct encampments may at the option 
of the body holding the same be used 
for the purpose of assisting working en- 
campments when in need of funds to 
sustain them in their organization ; or 
they may be applied to the assistance of 
the widows and orphans of members 
of such defunct bodies, or to any relief 
fund which may exist in such Grand 
Jurisdiction; provided, that where a 
fund is held on a specific trust and such 
subordinate becomes defunct the Grand 
Body shall see that such trust is duly 
executed and the trust fund applied to 
the purpose for which the fund was 
created.— 5. G. L. 5516. 



316. Grand Bodies have not the right 
to dispose of funds derived from de- 
funct subordinates as they deem best, 
even if the general objects of the Order 
are not violated. These funds can only 
be appropriated for the special purposes 
and objects set forth in the general law 
as the particular objects and beneficiar- 
ies of these funds. — 1901, S. G. L. 266. 

317. It is illegal for a Grand Body 
by its Constitution to set aside the funds 
from defunct subordinates to the pay- 
ment of sick or funeral benefits to such 
members as are unable, by reason of 
infirmity, to join another subordinate. — 
1 90 1, S. G. L. 266. 

318. The Grand Encampment may, if 
it deems proper, use the assets of a de- 
funct encampment to pay the encamp- 
ment's arrears of rent. — 1885, Pa. 165. 



DEGREES. 

(a) Subordinate Encampment. 

(b) Grand Encampment. 

[See Dispensations, Ballot, Admission, Cards, Certificates, and Past Chief Patriarchs] 



(a) Subordinate Encampment. 



319. The general law of the Order is 
that the authority to confer degrees 
rests with the subordinate encampments 
and these bodies have the right to confer 
or refuse to confer as may seem best to 
them. — S. G. L. 15974. 



320. The subordinate lodge is the 
foundation of the Order, the subordinate 
encampment of the Patriarchal Branch, 



and it is a wise and proper regulation 
which leaves the question of the advance 
of a Brother or a Patriarch to higher 
degrees, discretionary with them. — 6". G. 
L.—1S97A- 

321. A law that declares a member 
who has taken the patriarchal degree 
dropped for failure to advance unless 
excused by the encampment is illegal. — 
5. G. L. 9977. 



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322. Members of an encampment, after 
having received the Patriarchal Degree, 
may postpone or neglect to take the 
remiaining degrees for an indefinite 
period, then ask to have the other 
degrees conferred on them. And the 
Encampment must confer the degrees on 
such members even when in ill health 
provided that the sickness was con- 
tracted after the Patriarch's admission 
to the encampment. One ballot elects 
to membership and includes the degrees ; 
hence, after receiving the Patriarchal 
Degree, members are privileged to take 
the other degrees whenever they desire 
to do so. But a Patriarch is not en- 
titled to benefits until he receives the 
Royal Purple Degree, and for a certain 
time thereafter. — 1894, Pa. 281. 

2,22,. In the encampment the dramatic 
work must be conferred upon each can- 
didate. When the work will admit of it, 
it may be in groups. — 5". G. L. 14681. 

324. Where a person has been elected 
to receive all the encampment degrees 
and has received the Patriarchal Degree 
in the encampment in which he was 
elected, an encampment in the same or 
another jurisdiction may confer on him 
the Golden Rule and Royal Purple 
Degrees at the request of the former 
encampment. — 5". G. L. 6350, 8210. 

325. No encampment can confer de- 
grees upon a member of any other 
encampment without the consent of the 
encampment to which the member be- 
longs, given under its seal. If so con- 
ferred the fees received therefor must 
be paid over to the encampment of 
which the recipient of the degree is a 
member. — S. G. L. By-laws. 

Z26. An encampment has a candidate 
to receive the Golden Rule Degree, and 
said encampment receives an invitation 
from another encampment to pay them 
a visit and have the degree conferred 
upon its candidate. It is necessary for 
the encampment extending the invita- 
tion to have an order from the encamp- 
ment to which the candidate belongs 



before the degree can be conferred, even 
though the encampment accompanies its 
candidate. No encampment shall confer 
degrees upon any member of another 
encampment without the consent of the 
encampment to which the member be- 
longs, given under its seal and the signa- 
tures of its Chief Patriarch and Scribe. 
—1903, Pa. 24. 

327. The correctness of giving two of 
the patriarchal degrees on the same 
night is to be determined by local legis- 
lation. — 3". G. L. 2404. 

328. An encampment cannot legally 
simply obligate a candidate in the Patri- 
archal Degree and then give him the 
Golden Rule Degree on the same even- 
ing. — 1894, Pa. 280. 

329. An encampment cannot legally 
initiate or advance a brother of the 
Scarlet Degree to the Patriarchal De- 
gree by merely obligating him and in- 
structing him in the secret work, with- 
out conferring upon him the ritualistic 
charges and lectures in the encampment 
by the proper officers by simply sending 
out a Past Chief Patriarch to administer 
the obligation in the ante-room. — 1905, 
S. G. L. 46. 

330. In conferring degrees with a de- 
gree staff the positions of Chief Pa- 
triarch and Senior Warden must be filled 
by Patriarchs who are installed Chief 
Patriarch and Senior Warden of an 
encampment or are past officers of said 
positions. — 1903, Pa. 21. 

331. A Grand Encampment can only 
work in the Grand Encampment Degree ; 
it would therefore be incompetent to 
confer the encampment degrees. — S. G. 
L. 1200, 1395, 1724- 

332. Grand Encampments are hereby 
permitted to exemplify, respectively, the 
degrees in the presence of all duly quali- 
fied members in good standing, and for 
that purpose to admit them to the floor 
of said Grand Bodies. — 5". G. L. 9323. 



(6) Grand Encampment. 



333, The work and degree for Grand 
Encampments was adopted in 1842. — 
5. G. L. 487. 

334. There are no past official degrees 
in the encampment branch of the Order, 
unless the Grand Encampment Degree 
be called such.— 5". G. L. 11 100. 



335. Any Grand Encampment may 
hold special sessions as often as may be 
deemed necessary in its jurisdiction, to 
give instruction in the unwritten work 
of the Order and to confer the Grand 
Encampment Degree, at such places 
within the jurisdiction of such Grand 
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Grand Patriarch, unless otherwise pro- 
vided by the laws of the Grand Body. — 
S. G. L. 8079. 

Z2)^. No Grand Encampment can under 
the law award the honors of P. C. P. 
to any member who has not been reg- 
ularly elected C. P. and served out the 
term of the office. — 5" G. L. 7761. 

337. The amount and character of the 
evidence which should be required by 
Grand Encampments before conferring 
the Grand Encampment degree is a mat- 
ter of legislation which can properly be 
decided by the Grand Encampment 
alone. — 5'. G. L. 3358. 

338. There seems to be no general law 
requiring service as J. W. to entitle a 
P. C. P. to the Grand Encampment 
Degree ; hence where a P. C. P. presents 
to the Grand Encampment of another 
jurisdiction a certificate from the officers 
of his own encampment that he is a 
P. C. P., accompanied by a visiting card 
in date and a certificate from the Grand 
Scribe of his jurisdiction that he is a 
P. C. P. and District Deputy for the 
current year, with a request that the said 
Grand Encampment confer upon him 
the Grand Encampment Degree, such 
Grand Encampment has no right to 
refuse compliance because it is not cer- 
tified that he is a Past J. W.—S. G. L. 
moo. 

339. It was represented that a Past 
Chief Patriarch, who holds a visiting 
card from an encampment in the juris- 
diction, and also a certificate that he has 
served as Chief Patriarch of said en- 
campment, is now a resident of the 
city of St. Louis, Mo. He has never 
received the Grand Encampment Degree, 
for the reason that he has not been in 
the vicinity of the Grand Encampment 
of this jurisdiction when it was in ses- 
sion. He desires to visit the Grand 
Encampment of the State of Missouri 
at its next annual session, and for that 
purpose he desires a certificate or request 
for that Grand Encampment to confer 
the degree. This can be done in accord- 
ance with the general law. It is 
true, this only mentions Grand Lodges 
and Past Official Degrees, but it is well 
understood, and has so been decided 



by the Sovereign Grand Lodge, that 
where there are no specific laws relating 
to the Patriarchal branch of the Order, 
the laws governing Grand and Subordi- 
nate Lodges may be applied to meet the 
case. The fact of him receiving the 
Grand Encampment Degree in the juris- 
diction of Missouri will not make him a 
member of the Grand Encampment of 
Missouri, any more than his having 
received the Past Official and Grand 
Lodge Degrees in the Grand Lodge of 
Missouri on a similar certificate or re- 
quest, made him a member of said 
Grand Lodge. The Patriarch is now a 
permanent resident of the city of St. 
Louis and it is very uncertain if he can 
ever be present at a meeting of this 
Grand Encampment, and it seems hard 
that he should be deprived of his rights 
as a Past Chief Patriarch. His advanced 
age deters him from taking a With- 
drawal Card from his own encampment, 
and depositing it in one there. He 
appears to be a very worthy brother, 
and takes great interest in attending 
the meetings of Subordinate Lodges and 
encampments. On motion the Grand 
Scribe was authorized to issue the re- 
quest and certificate asked for. — 1878, 
Pa. 458. 

340. District Deputies have no power 
to confer the Grand Encampment De- 
gree. It must be conferred by the 
Grand Encampment in the room in 
which the Grand Encampment is 
assembled or in some contiguous room. 
— 5". G. L. 1090, 4838. 

341. Every member of the S. G. L. 
shall be entitled to have the Grand 
Encampment Degree and all side degrees 
conferred upon him by the presiding 
officer of said Grand Lodge. But if he 
has not served in the chair of C. P. or 
H. P. he cannot claim a seat in the 
organization of a Grand Encampment or 
equal rank, privilege and eligibility to 
office therein with a P. C. P. or a 
P. H. P. The degrees thus obtained 
confer no privileges and their posses- 
sion does not empower and authorize 
him to visit a Grand Encampment, 
canton or lodge of the Daughters of 
Rebekah, unless he is otherwise quali- 
fied to do so.— 5". G. L. 491, 1 148, 1 1893. 



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DIPLOMAS. 

[See Certificates] 



342. Diplomas issued to members of 
the S. G. L. must be attested in the 
manner in which charters emanating 
from that body are now authenti- 
cated, and any number which may be 
required by any Grand Encampment 
may be issued by the Grand Secre- 
tary of the S. G. L., and the said 
Grand Encamprnent obtaining the same 
shall attest them in the same man- 
ner in which it now authenticates 
official documents issued by it. — S. 
G. L. 327- 



343- No diploma shall be granted 
except by a vote of the Grand Encamp- 
ments, or subordinate encampments 
under their respective jurisdictions.— 
S. G. L. 574, 804. 

344. Under the existing law past offi- 
cers cannot be deprived of their rank 
simply because they are not members of 
Grand Lodges or Grand Encampments, 
but are entitled to their rank by virtue 
of their having filled said offices, and 
evidence of such rank should be shown 
in their diplomas. — S. G. L. 9821. 



DISPENSATIONS. 

[See Grand Patriarch, District Deputy Grand Patriarch, Degrees, and Eligibilty to Office] 



345. There seems to be an impression 
that the Grand Patriarch has the power 
to grant dispensations to permit tem- 
porary reductions of admission fees. 
Several such applications have been re- 
ceived. The Grand Patriarch has no 
such power. The desired end may be 
obtained only by amendment of the 
By-laws which must be duly approved 
by the Committee on By-laws. — 1901, 
Pa. 10. 

346. The Committee on Judiciary of 
the Sovereign Grand Lodge reported to 
that body that they could find no general 
legislation on the subejct of dispensa- 
tions, and that as the question presented 



to the attention of the Judiciary Com- 
mittee sets out that in the particular 
jurisdiction there is no local law on the 
subject, under these circumstances, 
usage and custom would control. The 
Sovereign Body recognizes this prin- 
ciple, for the inherent right of a Past 
Grand to vote for Grand Officers is 
founded alone on the fact that the right 
has been recognized from the origin 
of the Order. There is a general cus- 
tom and usage that dispensations have, 
during the whole life of the Order, been 
granted by Grand Masters and Grand 
Patriarchs to permit subordinates to 
elect, initiate and advance speedily an 
applicant. — 1900, 6^. G. L. 956 



DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND PATRIARCH. 

[See Decisions, Dispensations, and Jewels] 



347, By the General Law it is not 
necessary that a Patriarch should be in 
possession of the Grand Encampment 
Degree to be eligible to the office of 
D. D. G Patriarch.— 5^. G. L. 4838. 

348. An encampment refused to be 
installed by a D. D. G. P. on account of 
his not being a member of the Grand 
Encampment. It was held that it is not 
the province of a Subordinate Encamp- 
ment to decide as to the legality of any 
act of the Grand Encampment ; that 
when a communication is received by a 
Subordinate Encampment under seal of 
the Grand Encampment, or an officer 
presents himself, holding a commission 
under seal of the Grand Encampment, 
the only duty of such subordinate, is to 
receive such communication or officer, 



and then submit any grievance they may 
have to the proper tribunal for settle- 
ment. — 1877, Pa. 380. 

349. A D. D. G. Patriarch cannot 
legally declare an act of an encamp- 
ment which is in violation of law void, 
when his knowledge of such act is 
obtained by reason of his presence in 
the encampment as a member thereof. 
He may point out errors and call atten- 
tion to violation of law, but that is all. 
It is his duty to report persistent viola- 
tions to the Grand Patriarch. — 5^. G. L. 
5281, 5919- 

350. The following is the form of com- 
mission issued to a D. D. G. Patriarch 
appointed by the Grand Patriarch of 
Pennsylvania. 



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Office of 

Zbc (5ranD ipatriarcb 

of the 

Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. F. 

Odd Fellows' Temple, Broad and Cherry Sts. 
Philadelphia. 



Grand Patriarch of the I. O. O. F. of the State of Pennsylvania 

To our well-beloved Brother, P. C. P. 

Know Ye, That, reposing special confidence in your knowledge and discretion, I DO, by virtue 
of the power and authority in me vested, hereby appoint and commission you, the said P. C. P. 

our 

DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND PATRIARCH 

For the District composed of the Encampments meeting in 

to be entitled 

•' District Deputy Grand Patriarch of the I. O. O. F. of Pennsylvania.'' 

And, as our District Deputy Grand Patriarch for said District, you are empowered and directed to 
act as the 

Special Agent of the Grand Encampment of the State of Pennsylvania 

in relation to matters herein specified, viz., 

To act for the Grand Patriarch, and, by his directions, to do and perform whatever may have been 
ordered to be done and performed by the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania in your District. 

You shall obey all special instructions of the Grand Patriarch in relation to anything which that 
officer is required to do for the " GOOD OF THE ORDER." 

You are to act as the AGENT OF THE GRAND SCRIBE, and obey the special instructions of 
that officer ; receive from him warrants for new Encampments that are to be opened in your District, and 
institute such Encampments in regular form when a Grand Officer is not present to perform the duties. 

You are to have a GENERAL SUPERVISION over all Encampments in your District. 

It is your duty to see that the Work of the Order is performed uniformly by such Encampments ; to 
install, or cause to be installed by a Past Chief Patriarch, in regular form, at the periods designated by 
the regulations of the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, the officers duly elected and appointed in 
the several Encampments in your District; to examine the Reports of the Encampments in your Dis- 
trict; and to see that the Amount of Per Capita Tax due thereon, has been duly forwarded to the 
office of the Grand Scribe ; to grant such dispensations as are not inconsistent with the usages and 
customs of the Order. 

You are to make an Annual Report of your acts and doings to the Grand Patriarch prior to 

This Dispensation shall go into eiiect from the day of the date hereof, and remain in full force until 
the appointment of your successor, unless sooner revoked by me or the Grand Encampment. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Grand Encamp- 
ment of Pennsylvania, this 190 



[Seal,] 



Grand Patriarch. 



Attest 



Grand Scribe. 



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351- Whereas, There are, in many dis- thorize said Deputy to visit such en- 

tricts of this jurisdiction, encampments campment, and the Grand Officers may 

needing counsel and instruction, but authorize the payment of the Deputy's 

have not the means to pay the expenses actual traveling expenses by drafts on 

of D. D. Grand Patriarchs, or proper the Grand Treasurer, irrespective of any 

instructors; therefore special appropriation. — 1870, Pa. 53. 

Resolved, That when any D. D. Grand 

Patriarch receives an invitation to visit 352. A. D. D, G. Patriarch has no 

an encampment in his district for in- power of his own motion, in the absence 

struction, it will be his duty to inform of legislative authority, to declare null 

the Grand Officers of the request, and if and void the acts of a subordinate 

they deem it expedient, they may au- encampment. — 1900, 5*. G. L. 511. 

DONATIONS. 

.353- Donations, made to assist peti- encampment. In the consideration of 

tioning Patriarchs by the parent or such action by the parent encampments, 

other encampments for the purpose of it is recommended that the Grand Bodies 

instituting new encampments, are allow- or Grand Officers of the jurisdiction be 

able and are in no sense to be regarded consulted as to its propriety. — 5". G. L. 

as a diversion of the funds of the 4423, 7804. 

DORMANT ENCAMPMENTS. 

[See Charter, Defunct Encampments, Funds, and Cards] 

354. A subordinate body exists, al- returned does not refer back to the 
though it may cease to act as such, time when the subordinate ceased to act 
until its charter is surrendered or an- as such. — 6*. G. L. 10106. 

nulled. The time when the charter is 

DUAL OFFICE HOLDING. 

[See Officers of Encampments] 

355. On principle, a brother cannot 356. The same Patriarch cannot legally 
hold the two offices of recording secre- hold the two offices of Grand Junior 
tary and treasurer at one and the Warden and Grand Treasurer in a 
same time, in any lodge in the Order, Grand Encampment at one and the same 
Grand or subordinate, as the case time. — S. G. L. 15169. 

may be. This applies to encampments 

and Grand Encampments as well as 357- A Patriarch cannot hold the office 

to lodges and Grand Lodges.— 5. G. L. of High Priest and Treasurer of an 
10255. encampment at the same time. — 1902, 

Pa. 250. 

DUES. 

(o) General Provisions. 

(6) Arrears of Dues. 

(c) Funeral Dues and Assessments. 

(d) Receipts for Dues. 

[See Cards, Transfer of Membership, Suspension for Non Payment of Dues, and Reinstatement] 

(a) General provisions. 

358. The Grand Encampment is au- 359. It is competent for a Grand En- 

thorized to so legislate as to permit the campment to permit its subordinates to 

degrees of the subordinate encampments make By-laws requiring payment of 

to be conferred at a minimum price of dues in advance; provided, such re- 

not less than one dollar each, or three quirement shall not work a for- 

dollars for three degrees, and to fix feiture of any rights now guaranteed 

annual dues at a minimum price of not to members by the laws of the S. G. L. 

less than one dollar.— 5^. G. L. 15074- —5'. G. L. 7Z70. 



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360. It is not lawful to pass a local 
law whereby a subordinate encampment 
may receive a fixed sum as dues and as 
a consideration therefor relieve the 
member so paying from further obliga- 
tion to be charged with dues during his 
membership. — 6^. G. L. 5519. 

361. The dues of one joining an en- 
campment commence at the time he 
receives the Patriarchal Degree. — 
5". G. L. 3031- 

362. Dues accrue weekly. — 1871, Pa. 5. 

363. Dues are charged at the end of 
the week. — 1871, Pa. 5. 

364. When the laws of an encamp- 
ment require the payment of dues to a 
particular officer it is optional with the 
encampment whether they accept pay- 
ment made through any other person as 
their official agent. A payment to the 
treasurer is not a payment to the en- 
campment when the By-laws require 
payment to the secretary. — S. G. L. Z^Z'^- 

365. A Scribe of an encampment is 
not compelled by law to receive dues 
between meeting nights. The time to 
pay dues is during the meeting of the 
encampment. If a Scribe receives dues 
between meeting nights, he does it sim- 
ply for the convenience of the member 
paying them. Dues accrue weekly, and 
any money paid between meetings 
should be credited at the next meeting 
following their receipt. — 1904, Pa. 258. 

366. A Patriarch being sick and in 
charge of the Relief Committee, when 
he has declared off, the Relief Com- 
mittee should square the Patriarch's 
account on the books of the encamp- 
ment, from benefits due the Patriarch. 
It is the duty of the Relief Committee 
to keep a brother's dues paid up while 
he is under their charge, and drawing 
benefits, up to the time he is discharged 
from the care of the committee. — 1880, 
Pa. 98. 

367. A subordinate may increase its 
dues by an amendment to its By-laws, 



and a member, who before the increase 
had paid his dues at the old rate and 
taken a receipt specifying the time to 
which they were paid, is bound to pay 
the increased rate. The acceptance of 
dues and giving a receipt does not con- 
stitute a contract that the rate for such 
member shall remain unchanged for the 
time for which he paid in advance. — 
S. G. L. 7020. 

368. Where an encampment has all 
its books and records destroyed by fire 
it is lawful and proper for the encamp- 
ment to fix a date from which all mem- 
bers shall be charged dues, no matter 
what their previous standing on the 
books of the encampment may have been. 
Also to provide that those who were 
known to be over one year in arrears at 
the time of the fire should be charged 
one year's dues as having accrued prior 
to this fixed date. And also to provide 
that credits satisfactorily proved should 
be recognized at that date and entered 
of record so that those who can clearly 
establish that they were paid in advance 
at the time of the fire shall still main- 
tain that relative position to the other 
members of the encampment. — 1881, Pa. 
204, 1882, Pa. 245. 

369. No beneficial society aiming at 
stability and success can afford to enter 
into competition with others offering 
inducements of large benefits upon low 
dues. All promises based upon such a 
system are sure to end in failure, and 
the promises of Odd Fellows have been 
too long relied upon to engage in false 
inducements now. Our wonderful suc- 
cess in the past is the result of the good 
faith we have kept with our members 
in this particular. Each society has 
its necessary working expenses to bear, 
and unless the contributions beyond its 
indispensable outlays amount to enough 
to fulfill the promises, and meet the 
expectations of the members, they should 
be reformed and placed upon a sound 
financial basis. Nothing but the best 
guarantees of enduring success will jus- 
tify the tax upon our time and money to 
maintain them. — 1882, Pa. 309. 



Q)) Arrears of Dues. 



370. What arrearage for dues shall be 
necessary for a brother to become non- 
beneficial is a matter solely for the sub- 
ordinate Grand Bodies to determine. — 
1899, S. G. L. 388. 

371. When on a given meeting night 
a Patriarch owes exactly thirteen weeks' 



dues and does not pay, but allows the 
account to go over unsettled, he does not 
become in arrears until after the next 
meeting of the encampment whether it 
is two or three weeks distant, for the 
reason that the law requires that dues 
of a Patriarch must be paid to a Scribe 
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ing and not having had an opportunity 
to pay he cannot be charged with the 
penalty for neglect. — 1894, Pa. 184. 

Z72. It is the time and not the amount 
which determines as to whether a Pa- 
triarch is in good standing or in arrears. 
—1894, Pa- 183. 

273. At the close of stated meeting on 
August 16 a Patriarch owed $1.67 for 
dues. The dues for . three months 
amount to $1.69. At the next stated 
meeting, September 6, the Patriarch was 
reported as having been sick since 
August 30. The Chief Patriarch decided 
that he was beneficial, and was sus- 
tained by a majority of the members. 
Held that the decision was correct for 
the following reason : The Constitution 
says that a brother is entitled to bene- 
fits, provided he is not more than three 
months in arrears when taken sick. The 
Patriarch on August 16 owed $1.67, or 
two cents less than three months' dues ; 
hence he could not become in arrears 
until the close of the next stated meet- 
ing, which was held on September 6, 
three weeks later, which was the earliest 
time he could have paid any dues. On 
the thirtieth of August he was taken 
sick, hence, not being over thirteen 
weeks in arrears, he was beneficial. — 
1894, Pa. 281. 

374. Where the last payment on ac- 
count of dues covers even weeks and the 
balance over makes a part of a week, 
then the Patriarch has gained no advan- 
tage and must be judged as though the 
whole of the week was due. — 1894, Pa. 
184. 

375. A Patriarch owed $1.30 dues on 
the meeting night of December 21st; 
at the next meeting, January 4th, he 
paid $1.30. On January 14th he was 
taken sick, and remained sick until Feb- 
ruary 4th. Is he entitled to benefits 
according to our By-laws, which read: 
" Any Patriarch neglecting to pay his 
dues for a period over three months 
shall not be entitled to weekly or 
funeral benefits until three months after 
all arrearages are paid." Our dues are 
10 cents per week, or $1.30 per quarter. 
It was held that had the Patriarch owed 
$1.31 or over at the close of the meet- 
ing of December 21st, he would have 
been over three months in arrears, and 
consequently not entitled to benefits, but 
owing just $1.30 he was not over three 
months in arrears at the close of that 
meeting. The dues for the next two weeks 
could not be charged against him until 
the meeting of January 4th, and as the 



collection of dues is the last order of 
business, the Patriarch paying on that 
night was not in arrears over three 
months, and is entitled to benefits.— 
1878, Pa. 442. 

Z76. "A Patriarch is indebted to his 
encampment on a meeting night thereof 
for twelve weeks' dues; at the next 
meeting of the encampment, two more 
weeks having elapsed, he pays the whole 
of his indebtedness, reports himself dis- 
abled, and applies for benefits. The 
By-Laws declare in substance that a 
member owing more than thirteen weeks' 
dues shall not be entitled to benefits." 
Held that the Patriarch is entitled to 
benefits, on the following grounds: 
During the recess or interval, the Pa- 
triarch had no legal channel to pay his 
dues into the funds of the encampment ; 
the Scribe cannot be compelled to re- 
ceive dues from members during such 
interval. If he receives money from a 
member, and neglects to credit the same 
on the books of the encampment, the 
encampment is not responsible for such 
act of the Scribe during the recess. 
Therefore a Patriarch who owes twelve 
weeks' dues on any meeting night can- 
not have the dues accruing during the 
succeeding recess counted against him 
to place him in arrears. Provided he 
pays up all of his dues on the following 
meeting night. — 1878, Pa. 443. 

277. The payment of dues by a mem- 
ber over thirteen weeks in arrears when 
sick, either before or after reporting to 
the encampment, will not entitle him 
to benefits for that sickness. — 1883, Pa. 
350. 

378. A member paying into his en- 
campment at a stated meeting all the 
dues that were chargeable against him 
at the previous meeting is to be regarded 
as having paid his arrearages in full. 
The dues chargeable against him for 
that evening are not due until the en- 
campment is closed. The fiscal term 
by which dues are to be calculated com- 
mences at the closing and not at the 
opening of the encampment. — 1883, Pa. 
350. 

379. A Patriarch over thirteen weeks 
in arrears on November 26th, pays up in 
full on that date. The By-Laws have 
a penalty that a member shall not be 
entitled to benefits until six weeks after 
all his arrearages are paid — the Pa- 
triarch was taken sick on December 
15th, and died on February, 5th — he 
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from November 26th, or on January 7th. 
The Patriarch is therefore entitled to 
four weeks' benefits, if he died on Feb- 
ruary 5th, less his dues, and also is 
entitled to his funeral benefits. — 1897, 
Pa. 16. 

380. Under a law which reads: A 
member who is taken sick or disabled 
while in arrears to the encampment more 
than three months' dues cannot, by pay- 
ment of his arrearages, become iDeneficial 
during such sickness. A Patriarch was 
reported sick, and being in arrears was 
non-beneficial. His dues were paid 
while he was sick. He thereafter died, 
but there being no credible testimony to 
show that he recovered from the first 
sickness before his death his widow was 
held not to be entitled, to benefits. — 
5. G. L. 15427. 

381. A Patriarch sick and drawing 
benefits upon recovery is beneficial for 
thirteen weeks from the date of his 
discharge out of the care of the encamp- 
ment. Notwithstanding what may be 
the state of his account, as it was the 
duty of the encampment to have de- 
ducted out of his benefits all his arrear- 
ages for dues and all the dues as 
they accrued during the sickness; fail- 
ing in this it cannot take advantage 
of its own neglect. — 1896, Pa. Appeal 
Case No. 75. 

382. A Patriarch in arrears for the 
amount of one year's dues and is not 
suspended for the non-payment oi dues 
and is carried over, is taken sick and 
dies, the encampment is not liable to the 
payment of funeral benefits. — 1903, Pa. 



2,^2>- A Patriarch who holds an Official 
Receipt for dues paid in full to Novem- 
ber 1st, and who is taken sick on Feb- 
ruary 3d following, between the meet- 
ings of the encampment on January 28th 
and February 4th, is entitled to the sick 
benefits. This Patriarch was undoubt- 
edly beneficial at the meeting January 
28th, and he continued so until the close 
of the meeting February 4th. — 1902, Pa. 
250. 

384. A member suspended from his 
lodge for non-payment of dues is privi- 
leged to keep himself in good standing 
in his encampment for one year from 
such suspension. If, however, he be- 
comes twelve months in arrears in his 
encampment he is liable to suspension 
therefrom irrespective of his standing 
in the lodge. — 1894, Pa. 182. 



385. A Scribe of an encampment who 
is indebted for dues over three months, 
but has money due him from the en- 
campment for services as Scribe, is not 
entitled to benefits, as it was the duty 
of the Scribe to see that the encampment 
gave him such money due him, and then 
to pay his own dues. — 1875, Pa. 150. 

386. On June 23d a Patriarch was 
handed a sum of money which he was 
requested to pay into the encampment 
for a member, and if the sum was not 
sufficient to place him in good standing 
he should pay the difference and he 
would reimburse him. On the above 
mentioned date the Patriarch paid in the 
amount handed him by the Patriarch 
and asked of the Scribe whether it was 
sufficient to put the Patriarch in good 
standing, and he was informed by the 
Scribe that this amount paid the Pa- 
triarch's account in advance of that 
night. On September 4 the Patriarch 
for whom the money was paid died, and 
at the next meeting of the encampment, 
which was September 8th, the Scribe 
stated that he found that he was mis- 
taken, that the Patriarch owed $1.40 (the 
dues of this encampment are ten cents) 
and was in arrears and not entitled to 
the funeral benefit. Held that as the 
Scribe stated that the Patriarch owed 
$1.40 that night, September 8th, and the 
Patriarch died on the fourth of the 
month, at the time of his death he was 
not in arrears to his encampment for 
more than thirteen weeks, consequently 
his widow was entitled to the funeral 
benefit. Secondly, that the widow 
would be entitled to the funeral 
benefit if the Patriarch in this case was 
in arrears, for the reason, that when the 
amount paid in on June 23d was said 
by the Scribe to be sufficient to pay 
him ahead, then it was no fault of the 
Patriarch but of the Scribe that the 
dues were not paid in full and he would 
be entitled to benefits. — 1903, Pa. 26. 

387. A Patriarch came to the encamp- 
ment room in October and asked the 
Scribe how much he owed, and how 
much he had to pay to the ist of Jan- 
uary. The Scribe told him the amount, 
viz. : $3.50, including funeral dues ; he 
then paid the amount and the Scribe 
gave him credit, and the Patriarch left. 
On the 22d of February the Patriarch's 
wife died, and he then asked, in open 
encampment, for his benefits, and the 
Scribe looked at his account and saw 
that he was not beneficial. Held that 
the Patriarch was entitled to the benefits 
claimed by him. — 1874, Pa. 412. 



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388. If a brother, while in arrears for 
dues so as to deprive him from benefits, 
is taken sick, and he then pays up his 
dues, and dies from the same sickness, 
his widow is not entitled to funeral 



benefits. Should he die from some other 
and distinct cause than that with which 
he was originally afB'icted, his family 
would be entitled to receive the benefits. 
—1892, Pa. Appeal Case No. 55. 



(c) Funeral Dues and Assessments. 



389. The subordinate encampments in 
this jurisdiction are recommended to 
charge funeral dues against their mem- 
bers in sufficient amount to make up the 
amount paid as funeral benefits. — 1883, 
Pa. 390. 

390. All dues are chargeable from the 
date of the conferring of the Patriarchal 
Degree. No distinction is made as to 
funeral dues. Therefore, a member of 
the Patriarchal Degree is liable for 
funeral dues, even though he may not be 
beneficial until twelve months after re- 
ceiving the Royal Purple Degree. — 
1902, Pa. 250. 

391. An assessment on each member 
can be levied to pay a funeral benefit. — 
1897, Pa. 14. 

392. A member dying and being over- 
paid in dues, such am.ount should be 
returned to his relatives. — 1897, Pa. 14. 

393. When an encampment is paying 
benefits to the full limit of the dues 
charged, as required by the Constitu- 
tion, the encampment cannot make a 
By-Law to assess their membership for 
only part of the funeral benefits paid. 
Or, in other words, an encampment with 
but 36 members cannot pay a funeral 



benefit of $100 and only assess their 
members 50 cents per member, as the 
same would be only $18, making a clear 
loss of $82 on each funeral benefit paid. 
An encampment under the Constitution 
must pay at least $30 funeral benefits, 
and should have at least 60 members to 
pay $30 on 50 cents assessment. To pay 
$100 funeral assessment with 30 mem- 
bers the assessment should be $2.78 ; to 
do otherwise the living members are 
being cheated, as benefits are a right, 
and not a charity. — 1897, Pa. 14. 

394. It is legal for an encampment to 
require monthly or quarterly contribu- 
tions to create a fund to pay a stipu- 
lated amount to the widow or heirs 
(meaning dependent relatives) of a 
deceased brother. It is legal for an 
encampment on the death of a brother 
to assess the membership a stipulated 
amount (say fifty cents per member) 
for the purpose of paying the widow or 
children of the deceased a certain 
amount (say fifty cents for each remain- 
ing member). It is legal for an en- 
campment to charge such amount at the 
close of the quarter as dues — that is, 
such assessments are to be considered 
as funeral dues, as mentioned in Jour- 
nal of the S. G. L., pages 7461, 7505. — 
S. G. L. 8533. 



(d) Receipts for Dues. 



395. Official receipts only can lawfully 
issue for the payment of dues and assess- 
ments.— 5". G. L. 15745- 

396. Encampments are required to use 
the official form of receipt or certificate 
for dues to the entire exclusion of all 
other forms of receipts for dues. — 
S. G. L. 15175- 

397. A Patriarch has a right to de- 
mand an official receipt for dues each 
time he pays his dues, even though it 
be each meeting night in the year.— 
S. G. L. 15174- 

398. It is unlawful to issue any receipt 
for dues or assessments in lieu of the 
official certificate, except in the case of 



visiting or withdrawal cards. — 1900, S. 
G. L. 870. 

399. A member cannot accept any 
other than the official receipt or certi- 
ficate for dues, even though he does 
not desire to visit in another jurisdic- 
tion.— 5. G. L. 15175- 

400. A written order for a receipt 
issued to a Patriarch upon payment of 
dues is a clear evasion of the law 
requiring an official certificate to be 
used in such cases. — 1899, 6^. G. L. 23. 

401. It is illegal to use any receipt 
for dues except the official form of cer- 
tificate printed exclusively by the S. G. 
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receipt for dues and not to be used in 
visiting.— 5. G. L. I5i74- 

402. The Chief Patriarch cannot le- 
gally authorize the Scribe to sign for 
him. He must affix his own signature 
to the official certificate. — 1903, Pa. 21. 



403. Whenever a Patriarch makes a 
payment and he demands an official 
receipt he is entitled to receive it, 
regardless of whether he pays on 
account, in full, or in advance. — 1903, 
Pa. 21. 



ELECTIONS. 

(a) Grand Officers. 

{h) Subordinate Officers. 

{c) Election Returns. 

[See Officers of Encampments, and Voting] 



(a) Grand Officers. 



404. The time for holding elections 
for Grand Encampment Officers is fixed 
by the laws. It is, therefore, not neces- 
sary for a member to make a motion to 
proceed to a ballot when the proper 
time has arrived. — 1902, Pa. 250. 

405. The Grand Encampment may per- 
mit Past Chief Patriarchs to vote at a 
stated meeting of their encampment for 
Grand Encampment officers. — 1900, 6*. G. 
L. 511. 

406. In Pennsylvania a Past Chief 
Patriarch, who is over thirteen weeks 
in arrears, cannot legally vote for Grand 



Encampment Officers. Good standing 
is the qualification in our jurisdiction. 
A Patriarch over thirteen weeks in 
arrears is not in good standing. — 1902, 
Pa. 249. 

407. Where the Constitution of a 
Grand Encampment expresses that an 
election shall be " by written ballot," 
the names on the ballot shall be in writ- 
ing; where *' by printed ballot," the 
names on the ballot shall be printed; 
where by " written or printed ballot," 
either of the aforesaid character of 
ballot will be legal. — J?. G. L. 11893. 



(6) Subordinate Officers. 



408. A Patriarch who is over three 
months in arrears cannot be elected or 
appointed to any office or position in 
the encampment, but if elected or ap- 
pointed while in good standing, he can- 
not be deprived of his office by reason 
of his becoming in arrears during his 
official term. — 1875, Pa. 66. 

409. The right of subordinate en- 
campments to re-elect their officers is 
under the control of the Grand Encamp- 
ment. — 5". G. L. 4182. 

410. " A plurality of all votes cast " 
does not mean " a majority of the votes 
cast." There is no distinction between 
" a plurality of all votes cast " and " a 
plurality of the votes cast " and " a 
plurality of all the votes cast." — 1902, 
S. G. L. 551. 

411. In an election of officers by ballot 
in which a blank ballot was cast, the 
successful candidate must have a major- 
ity of all votes, including the blank 
ballots. — 1904, Pa. 259. 



412. An election in an encampment is 
legal where Patriarchs voted who were 
over thirteen weeks in arrears, but if 
found _ that a number greater than the 
majority of Patriarchs voted who were 
over thirteen weeks in arrears, the en- 
campment should order a new election 
for such officers that had opposition. — 
1875, Pa. 149- 

413. None but Royal Purple Degree 
members can be elected to office in a 
subordinate encampment. — S. G. L. 
1 1744- 

414. Right to vote a secret ballot ap- 
plies to a poll for the election of officers 
and representatives when written or 
printed ballots are used. — 5^. G. L. 15757. 

415. A brother endeavoring to ascer- 
tain the names of those voting for offi- 
cers where written ballots were used 
is not guilty of any offense under our 
laws. It is otherwise with respect to 
balloting on candidates for admission. 
—S. G. L. 15757. 



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416. When an election of officers is 
contested, the several members voting 
can legally be examined as to how they 
voted by a committee appointed for that 



purpose by the body in which the elec- 
tion took place or by any other agency 
created by such body.— 6'. G. L. 15757. 



{c) Election Returns. 



417. Election returns from encamp- 
ments will not be counted for the fol- 
lowing reasons : No returns received. 
No election was held. Voted on the 
wrong date. No votes recorded on re- 
turns. — 1906, Pa. 243. Received too late 
to be counted. — 1903, Pa. 158. Election 
not held at the proper time. — 1901, Pa. 
46. Incorrect returns as per By-Laws 
of Grand Encampment. 

418. An encampment having sent up 
an informal return, and it had been 



rejected by the Committee on Election 
Returns, it was not in the power of an 
encampment to substitute the rejected 
return by presenting another at the ses- 
sion of the Grand Encampment. — 1874, 
Pa. 435. 

419. The form given on the follow- 
ing page is that of the election return 
certificate for Grand Encampment Offi- 
cers as adopted by the Grand Encamp- 
ment. — 1904, Pa. 321. 



ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE. 

[See Honors of Office, and Dispensations] 



420. Grand Encampments are pro- 
hibited from making or requiring any 
other or different qualifications for 
election to office than those prescribed 
by the S. G. L.—S. G. L. 11745- 

421. To be eligible to the office of 
Chief Patriarch in a subordinate en- 
campment a Patriarch must at least have 
served a term in the office of S. W. — 
S. G. L. 117 AS- 

422. Under the general law a Patri- 
arch before he can be elected C. P. 
must have served a term as H. P. and 
one as S. W., but a Grand Encampment 
may by By-law dispense with the term 
of service in the H. P.'s chair. This 
must not be construed as limiting a 
Grand Encampment to legislation on the 
subject, only in the form of a By-law, — 
6-. G. L. 13783. 

423. To be eligible to the office of 
Chief Patriarch in a subordinate en- 
campment a Patriarch must have served 
a term in the office of S. W. and H. P., 
but the qualification of service in the 
office of H. P. shall be left to local 
legislation. This is the general law, 
and in the absence of legislation by 
subordinate jurisdiction making it un- 
necessary to serve as H. P., a Patriarch 
must serve a term as S. W. and H. P. 
to be eligible as C. V.—S. G. L. 15534- 

424. A Grand Jurisdiction may pro- 
vide by law that service in the office of 
S. W. alone will render a Patriarch 
eligible to the office of C. P., but unless 
a jurisdiction does so provide a Patri- 
arch to be eligible to the office of C. P. 



must have served a term as S. W. and 
H. V.—S. G. L. 15170. 

425. To be eligible to the office of 
Senior Warden in a subordinate en- 
campment a Patriarch must have served 
a term in some elective office other 
than trustee or in an appointed office. 
—S. G. L. 11745, 11903- 

426. A member admitted by card, who 
has served a term in a subordinate office 
in the encampment that he withdraws 
from, is eligible to an elective office in 
the encampment in which he has de- 
posited his card without having served 
in an appointed office therein. — 1875, 
Pa. 65. 

427. A Past Chief Patriarch, a mem- 
ber in good standing of an encampment 
may be elected to and installed into 
office in the Grand Encampment to 
which his encampment is subordinate, 
although he does not reside in the State 
in which the Grand Body is located; 
provided, there be no prohibition in the 
local law.— 5". G. L. 35i3- 

428. A Patriarch under suspension in 
his encampment is not eligible to office 
in a Grand Encampment, and should 
such Patriarch be elected it is not com- 
petent to install him. — 5". G. L. 4467. 

429. No distinction can be made in 
the eligibility of members of a Grand 
Encampment to office therein, though 
composed of Past Chief Patriarchs and 
Past High Priests. Both are equally 
eligible to all offices, elective or appoin- 
tive.— i". G. L. 8369, 8719- 



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Certificate of Election for (5ranD Bncampment ©tficers, H. 



K 3f. 



"At the first stated meeting of each Subordinate Encampment in the month of March, the Past 
Chief Patriarchs of each Encampment, who are present in the Encampment on the night of the election, 
shall by ballot vote for such candidates for the several offices of the Grand Encampment as have been 
previously nominated in the manner provided for in the foregoing sections. As soon as the Encamp- 
ment is regularly opened the Chief Patriarch shall appoint two Past Chief Patriarchs as tellers to conduct 
the election ; whereupon the polls shall be opened and remain open until the Encampment has trans- 
acted its other regular business. As soon as the poll in each Encampment is closed the votes shall be 
counted, and the result, with the names of the Past Chief Patriarchs voting, shall be forthwith certified 
in two returns signed by the two tellers and by the Chief Patriarch, attested by the Scribe and the seal 
of the Encampment; provided, that where there is only one Past Chief Patriarch present the signature 
of one teller shall suffice. One return shall be forwarded immediately to the Grand Scribe and one shall 
be placed in the hands of the Representative. In case the one forwarded to the Grand Scribe is not 
received by that officer within ten days after the election has closed in the Subordinate Encampments, 
the Grand Scribe shall notify the Representative and the Encampment, and one of the return sheets must 
then be presented or forwarded to the Grand Scribe. Where, for any cause, an election is not held in 
a Subordinate Encampment on the regular election night, the Scribe of that Encampment shall endorse 
the fact " No election " on the election return sheets, secure the signature of the Chief Patriarch, attach 
his own signature and the seal of the Encampment, and forward to the proper officer, just the same as 
though an election had been held. No return shall be received and counted if not on file in the office of 
the Grand Scribe at the time of the counting of the votes by the Election Committee of the Grand 
Encampment : provided, that this shall not prevent the correction of any imperfect return to supply any 
nformality or patent error.'' (Article XXIX. Section 3. of the By-Laws of the Grand Encampment.) 



To the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania : 

This is to certify that on this, the first stated meeting night of 

Encampment, No in the Month of March, ig beitig: the day of said 

month, a ballot was had of Elective Officers of your body, which resulted as follows : 





Votes. 


Names of Past Chief Patriarchs Present and Voting. 


For Grand Patriarch 




I 


21 




2 


22 










3 


23 


For Grand High Priest 




4 


24 




5 








25 




6 


26 








7 


27 






8 


28 






9 


29 




10 


30 






II 


31 


For Grand Treasurer 




12 


32 




13 


33 








14 


34 


For Grand Junior Warden 




15 


35 






16 


36 






17 


37 






18 


38 


the S. G. L. 


19 


39 






20 


40 



IVe hereby certify that the above is a true return of the vote of this Encampment for Grand Officers, 
that the Past Chief Patriarchs, whose names are above written, are rnemb'ers in good standiyig, and 
were present while the polls were open, and voted in person. 

In Witness Whereof, We have hereunto set our hands, and affixed the seal of our Encampment, 
this day of... /p 

l Tellers 

SEAL ^ 
. . J Chief Patriarch. 

Scribe. 

Post Office Address 

Be particular to have this signed by Tellers, Chief Patriarch, and Scribe. Fill up all the 
blanks and affix the seal. .^=- Forward one sheet immediately to the Grand Scribe, and 
one sheet to the Representative to the Grand Encampment. 



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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



ENTERTAINMENT— PARTIES. 



430. No subordinate or Grand Lodge, 
Rebekah lodge or Convention, subor- 
dinate or Grand Encampment, canton or 
Grand Canton, and no member of any 
of the above organizations of any rank 
or station in the same, shall hold or 
make any arrangement for, or manage, 
or to any extent control any anniver- 
sary, excursion, picnic, ball or party or 
entertainment of any kind where regalia, 
emblems or name of the Order will 
be worn, assumed or used, without first 



obtaining the consent of the Executive 
Grand Officer in the jurisdiction in 
which the entertainment is proposed 
to be held, such permission only to be 
predicated upon the direct promise, 
through the officers of the subordinate 
or Grand Body seeking the permission, 
that no intoxicating beverages of any 
kind shall be offered to the members or 
guests present on the occasion. — 5. G. L. 
13067. 



EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT. 



431. When the conclusion is reached 
by the Committee on Appeals, after due 
trial and conviction, that the penalty 
inflicted is excessive, the question of 



penalty shall be submitted to the Grand 
Encampment in Annual Communication 
for determination as to the question of 
punishment only. — 1906, Pa. 261. 



EXPELLED MEMBER. 



432. A member expelled from a lodge 
and afterwards reinstated is not there- 
by reinstated in his encampment, but 
his application for reinstatement in 
his encampment should be presented 
and acted upon in the same manner 
as in the subordinate lodge. — 5'. G. L. 
8370. 

433. A member expelled by his en- 
campment before his expulsion by his 
lodge, applying to his encampment for 
reinstatement after reinstatement in his 
lodge, the encampment must obtain per- 
mission from the Grand Encampment 
to act upon such application. — S. G. L. 
8370. 

434. A brother who has been expelled 
from a lodge which subsequently be- 
comes extinct can only regain member- 



ship in the Order through the Grand 
Lodge to which the lodge he belonged 
was subordinate, and this rule applies to 
the Patriarchal branch of the Order. — 
S. G. L. 381 1. 

435. A suspended or expelled member 
shall not be admitted into another juris- 
diction without the previously obtained 
consent of the lodge or encampment 
from which he was suspended or ex- 
pelled.— S. G. L. 5483. 

436. An expelled member of an en- 
campment cannot be readmitted to mem- 
bership by another encampment in the 
same jurisdiction without the consent of 
the encampment expelling^ him, duly 
authenticated, and permission of the 
Grand Encampment duly obtained. — 
S. G. L. 12786. 



FINES. 

[See Dues] 



437. All encampments not having pro- 
visions in their By-laws, providing for 
the remission of fines of officers and 
members for non-performance of duty, 
are required so to amend thern as to 
place it in their power to remit such 



fines as they shall deem it expedient.— 
1875, Pa. 93- 

438. A fine for non-attendance at the 
funeral of a Patriarch cannot be legally 
assessed and collected by an encamp- 
ment.— 1871, Pa. 5. 



FLAG. 

439. The flag is to be manufactured be eleven-nineteenths of the length for 
of white material, either bunting, satin the width. The emblems are to consist 
or cotton cloth. The proportions are to of three links, to be placed in the centre 



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of the flag, with the letters I. O. O. F. 
and the name of the State, district or 
territory using it to be painted or 
wrought in scarlet color and trimmed 
with material of the same color. Wher- 
ever a flag is to be used by encamp- 
ments there shall be added two crooks, 



to be painted or wrought in purple color. 
—S. G. L. 4394, 5168. 

440. The flag is intended for subordi- 
nate encampments, as well as Grand 
Encampments.— ^S'. G. L. 5205. 



FORMS. 



441. The committee to compile the 
code of Patriarchal law are authorized 
and directed to select out such part of 
the Sovereign Grand Lodge trial code, 
including the forms, as are not in con- 



flict with the local law of this jurisdic- 
tion and to incorporate the same in the 
new code of Patriarchal law. — 1906, Pa. 
241. 



FUNDS. 

[See Appropriations, Contingent Fund, Defunct Encampments, Widows' and Orphans' Fund] 



442. All attempts to divert the funds 
or property of an encampment from the 
objects and purposes for which they 
were, in the name of the Order, col- 
lected, by dividing or appropriating them 
to some other object or purpose before 
breaking up or surrendering their char- 
ter, is wrong and in direct violation of 
the trust which has been voluntarily 
assumed. The funds and property col- 
lected under and by authority of a 
charter duly granted to an encampment 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows are trust funds and can be applied 
only to the objects for which they were 
collected, and when an encampment shall 
fail from any cause to continue as a 
working body and yield up its charter, 
the money and property of whatever 
kind, of which it may be possessed and 
belonging therto, must be surrendered 
up and paid over to the Grand Encamp- 
ment from which it derived its author- 
ity, and no diversion of the funds or 
property or other disposition of it 
except for the legitimate objects of the 
Order can or will be recognized or 
tolerated by the S. G. L. Grand Bodies 
are directed to enact such laws as will 
most effectually put a stop to all such 
practices and affix such penalties as will 
prevent any member, participating 
therein, from ever again uniting with the 
Order without first making due repara- 
tion therefor. When the laws of the 
Order shall be ineffectual for the pur- 
pose, Grand Bodies shall be justified in 
invoking the laws of the country to 
compel a surrender of the trust funds 
to the proper parties and objects. All 
Grand Bodies which have not hereto- 
fore legislated on this subject are hereby 
directed to enact suitable and appro- 
priate laws and regulations for the care 



of the funds and the property of defunct 
lodges and encampments, which shall 
thereafter become a separate trust, or 
fund, to be employed and used under 
the direction of such Grand Body or 
committee duly constituted by them, in 
aiding and assisting working lodges and 
encampments when in need of funds to 
sustain them in their organization. — 
5. G. L. 3664. 

443. Moneys paid into an encampment 
are for a specific purpose and no en- 
campment has a right to waste them on 
unnecessary expenses. The savings of 
an encampment are to be judiciously 
expended, for they represent the earn- 
ings of members long ago active in 
the organization as well as the present 
membership, who are to be judged 
as the trustees of the fund. — 1903, 
Pa. 23. 

444. The funds and property of a 
Grand Body collected in accordance 
with law are trust funds, and can be 
applied only to the objects for which 
they were collected and used for such 
purposes as are contemplated by the 
laws of our Order. Appropriations 
made by Grand Bodies in commemora- 
tion of a public event or in erecting a 
monument in memory of a distinguished 
Odd Fellow are governed by the con- 
stitutions and laws of such Grand 
Bodies, limited to the legitimate objects 
of the Order.— 5". G. L. 11720. 

445. It is not legal for an encampment 
to loan its funds to a lodge, a number of 
the members of the encampment being 
members of the lodge, as this would be 
loaning funds to an ^ unincorporated 
association or partnership, composed of 



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some of its own members and others 
and would practically be loaning the 
funds to its own members, which is 
prohibited by the constitution of subor- 
dinate encampments. — 1902, Pa. 249. 

446. It is lawful for an encampment to 
loan its funds to a member of the Order 
of Odd Fellows who is not a member 
of the encampment branch. — 1901, Pa. 

ID. 

447. Grand Encampments may au- 
thorize their subordinates to set aside 
five per cent, of their annual receipts 
from dues as a contingent or special 
fund, to be expended in the payment 
of necessary and proper obligations, 
which every subordinate encampment 
must meet, and for which purpose such 
subordinate encampments under exist- 
ing laws cannot expend their funds. — 
6'. G. L. 12626. 



448. By the local law subordinate en- 
campments in this jurisdiction are au- 
thorized to provide by By-law to set aside 
a sum not exceeding five per cent, of their 
annual receipts from dues as a contin- 
gent or special fund, to be expended in 
the payment of necessary and proper 
obligations, which every subordinate en- 
campment must meet, and for which 
purpose such subordinate encampments 
under existing laws cannot expend their 
funds. — 1906, Pa. 261. 

449. That the answer to the question, 
viz. : " If our encampment should vote 
to become a non-beneficial encampment 
under the constitution of the Grand 
Encampment, what would become of its 
trust funds?" is that said trust funds 
remain trust funds and can only be ap- 
plied for the purpose for which they 
were collected, notwithstanding the fact 
that the encampment may vote to be- 
come non-beneficial. — 1906, Pa. 259. 



FUNERALS. 



450. The lodge, encampment and mili- 
tant branches of the Order are distinct 
in organization, but there is only one 
form for funeral ceremony to be used 
by lodges and encampments, and a sepa- 
rate burial ceremony to be used by 
cantons. The present form for funeral 
ceremony to be used by lodges and en- 
campments embraces a provision which 
indirectly indicates the precedence which 
should be given the subordinate lodge. 
In all cases funeral ceremonies shall be 
conducted by the subordinate lodge, 
except that in conducting the funeral 
ceremony of a deceased brother, who 
was a member in good standing of both 
subordinate lodge and a subordinate 
encampment, the lodge shall take prece- 
dence over the encampment (except 
where the deceased was a Grand Offi- 
cer, etc.), unless by the previously ex- 
pressed desire of the deceased, his widow 
or near relative, the encampment shall 
be designated to take charge of his 
remains for burial, when the encamp- 
ment shall take precedence. — S. G. L. 
1 1896. 

451. Where a Patriarchal member of 
the Order dies suddenly without ex- 
pressing his preference for burial by 
either his encampment or lodge, and 
where both bodies desire to officiate at 
the funeral, the matter shall be deter- 
mined by the expressed wish of the 
widow (should there be one) or nearest 
relatives.— 5^. G. L. 11893. 



452. If a brother was a past or present 
elective officer of a Grand Lodge or 
Grand Encampment, then the cere- 
monies may be conducted by such Grand 
Lodge or Grand Encampment. — S. G. L. 
7381, 7388. 

453. The regalia to be worn by all 
brothers of the Order v/hen attending 
the funeral of a deceased brother shall 
be as follows: 1st. A black crape 
rosette, having a centre of the color 
of the highest degree to which the 
wearer may have attained, to be worn 
on the left breast; above it a sprig of 
evergreen and below it (if the wearer 
be an elective or past officer) the jewel 
or jewels which as such he may be 
entitled to wear. 2d. The ordinary 
mourning badge to be worn by brothers 
in memory of a deceased brother shall 
be a strip of black crape passed through 
one buttonhole only of the left lapel 
of the coat and tied with a narrow rib- 
bon of the color of the highest degree 
to which the wearer may have attained. 
—5-. G. L. 7387. 

454. The several Grand Encampments 
may at their discretion permit the usual 
regalia of the Order to be worn at 
funerals either in connection with or as 
a substitute for the simple regalia above 
described.— 5. G. L. 7387. 

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say, either the funeral or the usual re- 
galia of the Order, can be adopted or 
worn, — 1900, 5". G. L. 506. 

456. At the funeral of a lodge member, 
who has not attained the Patriarchal 
Degree, each member is entitled to wear 
the regalia of the highest rank he has 
attained in the lodge. The regular 
regalia, as prescribed for the encamp- 



ment branch other than the usual rosette, 
has not been authorized by the S. G. L. 
to be used on such occasions. — S. G. L. 

7375- 

457. An encampment attending as an 
encampment the burial of a Patriarch, 
must wear the regalia of the Patri- 
archal branch of the Order. — .S". G. L. 
16089. 



GRAND ENCAMPMENT. 



458. By virtue of charters granted by 
the S. G. L. all State, District or Ter- 
ritorial Grand Lodges and Grand En- 
campments exist, and with it rests the 
power, by a majority of two-thirds of 
the votes cast, to deprive such State, 
District or Territorial Grand Bodies of 
their charters and to annul their author- 
ity; provided, that such deprivation or 
annulment shall only be made for vio- 
lation of the laws of the S. G. L. No 
more than one Grand Encampment 
shall be chartered in any State, District 
or Territory. — 6". G. L. Constitution. 

459. The several Grand Jurisdictions 
are separate and independent bodies 
and have full power within the scope of 
the principles of the Order to legislate 
and do all things necessary to carry 
out the objects of the Order and in the 
execution of which the Sovereign Grand 
Lodge will not interfere or review, 
unless clearly in opposition to or sub- 
versive of established principles. — 5'. G. 
L. 1 1300. 

460. All Grand Bodies working under 
charters granted by the S. G. L. are 
supreme for all local legislation and 
appellate jurisdiction within their re- 
spective limits, except as hereinafter 
provided. — S. G. L. Constitution. 

461. All power and authority in the 
Order not reserved to the S. G. L. by 
its constitution is hereby vested in the 
various State, District and Territorial 
Grand Bodies. — 5". G. L. Constitution. 

462. A Grand Body is fully competent 
to decide the question of fact as to which 
candidate for office in such body is 
elected.— 5". G. L. 8109. 

463. When a construction or inter- 
pretation of local law is required by any 
individual member or subordinate, the 
Grand Body having jurisdiction is the 
proper tribunal to pronounce on the 
question, subject to appeal to the S. G. 
L.— 5. G. L. 12355. 



464. A Grand Body is not bound, be- 
cause it has established a particular 
rule of law in one case on appeal, to 
adhere to that rule of law in subsequent 
cases of the same character, but in any 
such case may review, affirm or reverse 
its former decision at pleasure. The 
last paragraph of Section 4 of Article 
I of the Constitution of the S. G. L. 
applies only to cases under appeal, and 
not to all legislation of a Grand Body. 
—S. G. L. 7086. 

465. In all cases the decisions of. the 
State, District, or Territorial Grand 
Lodges or Grand Encampments should 
be final and conclusive until reversed 
by the S. G. L. on a direct appeal there- 
from. — 5". G. L. Constitution. 

466. A Grand Body, through incon- 
sistent rules of parliamentary practice, 
cannot deprive itself of its inherent 
power to consider any proposition sub- 
mitted to it and take such action thereon 
as it may determine to be best. — 5. G. L. 
1 4891. 

467. Pending the consideration of the 
question upon the adoption of the Grand 
Patriarchs report, a point of order was 
raised that the report had not been 
formally received upon motion to that 
effect. The Grand Patriarch ruled the 
point of order to be not well taken, 
that where no motion was offered other- 
wise the reading of a report constitutes 
its reception. — 1871, Pa. 7. 

468. It is not according to parlia- 
mentary usage to make a motion to 
establish a negative of a proposition 
and the affirmative of another, or, in 
other words, to move to reject a propo- 
sition and adopt or substitute another, 
such a motion is unparliamentary and 
unknown to our legislation. — S. G. L. 
5281. 

469. Grand Encampments consist of all 
Past Chief Patriarchs and Past High 
Priests, or, if their constitutions so 



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determine, of all Past Chief Patriarchs 
only— 5". G. L. 1712. 

470. Each Grand Encampment is at 
liberty to frame its constitution in this 
particular to suit itself, and the S. G. L. 
will not interfere with this right. As 
to the grade of P. H. Ps., it depends 
entirely on the local laws. If by these 
laws they are admitted to membership 
in the Grand Encampment, it would be 
best to make them eligible to any office, 
including that of Grand Patriarch. It 
is advisable that all members should be 
placed on the same footing, but these 
are all matters for local legislation. — 
S. G. L. 1 1 14, 1 148, 5842. 

471. A Grand Encampment has not 
the right by resolution to place all 
P. H. Ps. who have attained that rank 
prior to a given date upon the books 
and records as P. C. Ps., they to be 
known as such thereafter, the constitu- 
tion limiting its membership to P. C. 
Ps., and the Grand Encampment has no 
authority to confer upon them a title 
they have not acquired by actual ser- 
vice.— S. G. L. 12788. 

472. A member of a suspended lodge 
cannot be permitted to enter or remain 
in a Grand Encampment. If he be an 



officer therein, his office is vacated. — 
5. G. L. 1 148. 

473. Patriarchs who are or may be- 
come members of a Grand Encampment 
of one State or jurisdiction shall be 
qualified for membership in a Grand 
Encampment of any other State or 
jurisdiction. — 5". G. L. 8041. 

474. A- Grand Representative not being 
a P. C P. or P. H. P. is not entitled 
to sit in a Grand Encampment, though 
he received the Grand Encampment 
Degree in the S. G. L.— 5". G. L. ii45» 
12791. 

475. A Grand Body has power to expel 
a member from its own body who may 
be guilty of conduct derogatory to the 
character of the Order either in or out 
of the Grand Body, after opportunity 
for defense or after he shall have been 
duly convicted, but possesses no power 
to expel a member altogether from the 
Order. It may, however, order a sub- 
ordinate to try a member, and to this 
order the subordinate must yield obedi- 
ence.— 5". G. L. 1062, 7917, 1 1482. 

476. It is proper to print in journal 
of Grand Encampment after a brother's 
name the letters " P. G. M.," meaning 
" Past Grand Master."— S. G. L. 15975- 



GRAND HIGH PRIEST. 

[See Eligibility to Office, and Honors of Office] 



477. The constitution of a Grand En- 
campment contains the following sec- 
tions, which constitute all the local legis- 
lation on the subject: 

"Grand High Priest.— The Grand 
High Priest," etc. * * * * « j^ ^^se 
that office (the Grand Patriarch) shall 
become vacant from any cause, the 
High Priest shall have the full powers 
of the Grand Patriarch until the next 
regular session and the vacancy is 
filled." 

There is a further provision that 
where both of the offices of Grand Pa- 
triarch and Grand High Priest shall 
become vacant, the Grand Senior War- 
den shall, during the recess, ex oMcio 
become Grand Patriarch. In case of 
the death of the Grand Patriarch the 
present Grand High Priest must con- 
tinue to act as Grand Patriarch until 
the next session, thus giving the honors 
to the deceased Grand Patriarch. 

The Grand High Priest shall have and 
exercise the full powers of the Grand 
Patriarch until the next regular session. 



and until the vacancy is filled. Whether 
he shall then be elected Grand Patriarch 
must be determined by the Grand En- 
campment. The deceased Grand Patriarch 
is entitled to the honors of the term. The 
Grand High Priest continues to exer- 
cise the powers of the Grand Patriarch 
until the vacancy is filled, and during 
that time he is simply filling out the 
term of the deceased Grand Patriarch. 
Should the Grand High Priest then be 
elected Grand Patriarch, it would not 
be for a single day, nor for any other 
fraction of the unexpired term of the 
deceased Grand Patriarch, but for the 
full new term. A special session of the 
Grand Encampment cannot legally be 
called to elect a Grand Patriarch. — 1906, 
5. G. L. 445. 

478. There is no law of this Grand 
Encampment authorizing or warranting 
the High Priest in acting in appeal 
cases, or in deciding questions of law, 
except when he is acting as Grand Pa- 
triarch pro tern. — 1884, Pa. 36. 



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GRAND HONORS. 



479. Grand Officers should address 
the chairs as other members. Grand 
honors should be given immediately 
after their recognition by the officers 
of the encampment both at entering and 
retiring. — 1905, .S. G. L. 19, 219. 

480. The honors are given to elective 
and Past Grand Officers visiting outside 
of their own jurisdictions after they 
have been recognized (addressed the 
chairs) and have been introduced to 
the C. P. by name and rank. — 5". G. L. 
4993- 

481. When the laws of a Grand En- 
campment provide that a Grand Repre- 
sentative is an elective Grand Officer 
thereof, he is to be recognized as such, 
and entitled to the honors of the Order 
when visiting a subordinate officially. 
—S. G. L. 3738. 

482. The officers and members of sub- 
ordinate encampments, when visiting 
another lodge or encampment in a body 
and introduced by their own officers, 



are not entitled to be received with the 
honors of the Order. — 5. G. L. 3805. 

483. When D. D. Grand Masters visit 
a subordinate lodge for the purpose of 
installing the officers-elect or upon other 
official duty, they, as the representa- 
tives of the Grand Master, shall be 
accorded the same honors that are given 
to that officer. The same principles 
shall apply to the Patriarchal branch of 
the Order.— 5'. G. L. 4883. 

484. A Past Chief Patriarch, who has 
been appointed by a D. D. G. P. to install 
the officers of an encampment, is not 
entitled to the honors of the Order 
when he appears for that purpose. — 
6^. G. L. 6229. 

485. In jurisdictions where the ap- 
pointment of a D. D. Grand Patriarch 
is not provided for by law, a P. C. P., 
who has been appointed by a Grand 
Patriarch to install the officers of an 
encampment, is entitled to the honors 
of the Order when he appears for that 
purpose. — S. G. L. 14481. 



GRAND PATRIARCH. 

[See Grand Honors, Decisions, Dispensations, Charter, Honors of Office, Visitation, and Mandate] 



486. A Past Chief Patriarch who has 
never taken the Grand Encampment 
Degree may be legally nominated and 
elected to office in a Grand Encampment, 
but he must take the degree before being 
installed. — 1901, S. G. L. zy. 

487. The Grand Patriarch has powers 
and duties as prescribed in the charge- 
book of the Order ; he has supervisory 
authority over the jurisdiction of his 
Grand Encampment ; he may introduce 
visiting brethren into any encampment 
within this jurisdiction to which they 
would be entitled to visit by card. The 
other elective officers have powers and 
duties as prescribed in the charge-books, 
and may introduce visiting brethren 
without examination into any encamp- 
ment within the jurisdiction of this 
Grand Encampment. — S. G. L. Digest of 
1847, 56. 

488. A Grand Patriarch has no au- 
thority to suspend the constitution of a 
subordinate encampment, and any dis- 
pensation of a Grand Patriarch in con- 
flict with such constitution is void. — 
S. G. L. 4624. 

5 



489. In the absence of local law to the 
contrary, the Grand Patriarch or board 
of Grand Officers, where there is such 
a board, possesses the right to allow an 
encampment to change its place of 
meeting and remove to a hall other 
than one belonging to the Order; for 
the occupying of a hall by an encamp- 
ment, whether by lease or purchase, 
makes it a hall of the Order, without 
regard to who may be the owner of the 
property so occupied. — S. G. L. 11487. 

490. It is not within the power of a 
Grand Patriarch to authorize the re- 
moval of a subordinate encampment 
from one town or city to another. That 
power belongs to the Grand Encamp- 
ment, and without constitutional au- 
thority, a Grand Patriarch cannot au- 
thorize the removal of a subordinate 
encampment from one city to another. 
— 6^. G. L. 3181 ; 1900, S. G. L. 510. 

491. When the By-laws of a subor- 
dinate fixes regular nights of meeting, a 
Grand Patriarch cannot by dispensation 
change such time even temporarily. — 
1899, 5. G. L. Z2. 



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492. Whether a Grand Patriarch has 
the power during the recess of a Grand 
Encampment to suspend a subordinate 
encampment is a subject for local law. 
— S. G. L. 2700. 

493. Unless the constitution of a 
Grand Encampment limits the general 
superintending authority incident to 
his office, the Grand Patriarch has, as 
a part of such superintending authority, 
the right to interdict any public display 
of emblems or secret working costumes 
of the encampment under his juris- 
diction which, in his judgment, may 
prove prejudicial to that branch of 
the Order. But if the general prerog- 
atives if the Grand Patriarch are so 
limited by the constitution, then the 
Grand Encampment only can interpose. 
—S. G. L. 3030. 

494. The interpretation of the consti- 
tution of a Grand Body during its 
recess is vested in its principal officer, 
subject to review by such Grand Body 
at its session following, and it is the 
duty of such officer to administer the 
local law according to his conscientous 
interpretation thereof. He may seek 
the Grand Sire's opinion thereon, and 
such opinion, if given, is mandatory. 
The responsibility of interpreting and 
executing the local law rests on the 
Grand Patriarch.— 6'. G. L. 13258. 

495. The Grand Patriarch has no juris- 
diction or discretion in a matter where 
the law strictly provides a mandatory 
duty of any other officer, committee, or 
member. Neither the Grand Patriarch 
nor any officer, committee, or member 
of the Grand Encampment has any right 
to disobey the law. Where the law is 
mandatory, it must, of course, be exe- 
cuted. — 1904, Pa. 251. 

496. The rights of the Grand Patri- 
arch in the matter of committees, unless 



distinctly stated by either the By-laws or 
the action of the Grand Encampment 
itself, is the general supervision of their 
work only to the extent of seeing that 
they meet and perform their duties in 
good faith, and removing and appoint- 
ing any of the members thereof. There 
is no warrant in law for the Grand Pa- 
triarch to instruct a committee as to 
what they should report. The reports 
are made to the Grand Encampment and 
not to the Grand Patriarch. The ex- 
ceptions to this are the Committee on 
By-laws, the Committee on Appeals, and 
the Committee on the State of the Order, 
where the law specifically designates 
the relations which the Grand Patriarch 
bears to these committees. — 1904, Pa. 
251. 

497. The Grand Patriarch has no au- 
thority to interfere with the proceed- 
ings of the Committee on Election Re- 
turns, other than to give them any in- 
structions that they may require in the 
way of construing the law, etc., before 
their final meeting. — 1904, Pa. 251. 

498. Under the law of this Grand 
Encampment it is the duty of the Grand 
Patriarch to issue his mandate when 
an award has been made by the Appeal 
Committee and approved by the G. P. 
—1895, Pa. 383. 

499. The By-laws of the Grand En- 
campment provides : " He," the Grand 
Patriarch, " shall appoint all committees 
not otherwise provided for, and shall 
be ex-oMcio a member thereof." The 
rights of the Grand Patriarch as an ex- 
oMcio member of a committee are the 
same as those of any other member of 
the same committee. — 1901, Pa. 10. 

500. A Grand Patriarch who removes 
from his jurisdiction before his term 
expires vacates the office and loses the 
honors.— 5". G. L. 14680. 



GRAND REPRESENTATIVE. 

[See Grand Honors, and Visitation] 



501. A Grand Representative must 
be a Past Grand in good standing and a 
member of a subordinate lodge and a 
Rebekah lodge in good standing. He 
must have received the Royal Purple 
Degree, be a member in good standing 
of an encampment in good standing, and 
he must reside in the State, district or 
territory in which the Grand Lodge or 
Grand Encampment which he represents 
is located. No representative shall rep- 



resent more than one Grand Body at the 
same time. — S. G. L. Constitution. 

502. A brother who resides in one 
jurisdiction is ineligible to the office of 
Grand Representative in another. — 1902, 
6^. G. L. 545- 

503. In order to be eligible to the 
office of Grand Representative, a brother 
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the Grand Encampment he is to repre- 
sent. (That is, he must reside in the 
State, district or territory in which the 
Grand Encampment, which he repre- 
sents, is located.) — 1906, 6^. G. L. 446. 

504. A member of an encampment 
which is in arrears for dues to the 
Grand Encampment, and which has not 
met for a year, is not eligible to the 
office of Grand Representative, even 
though he has paid his dues to the en- 
campment. — 1902, 5'. G. L. 556. 

505. Encampment jurisdictions are 
entitled to two representatives to the 
S. G. L. if at the time of election the 
jurisdiction has over one thousand mem- 
bers. — 1899, S. G. L. 32. 

506. Where a brother elected to the 
office of Grand Representative presents 
his certificate of election to the Grand 
Patriarch for signature, the Grand Pa- 
triarch cannot refuse to sign the same 
nor declare the office vacant on the 
ground that the brother when elected 
was not qualified by the laws of the 
Order. The S. G. L. has reserved unto 
itself the right to determine who is 
and who is not entitled to a seat in that 
body. — 1902, 5'. G. L. 545. 

507. While the authority to construe 
the laws of the Grand Encampment 
during the recess of that body is vested 
in the Grand Patriarch, it must be borne 
in mind, however, that the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge is the sole judge of the 
qualifications of its members, and that 
the officers of the Grand Encampment 
are declared elected in the meeting of 
the Grand Encampment itself; there- 
fore, the final decision as to the con- 
struction of the law entering into the 
election of either Grand Representative 
or officers of the Grand Encampment, 



lies with the Sovereign Grand Lodge in 
the first instance (Const, of Sov. Grand 
Lodge, Art. IX, Sec. 5), and with the 
Grand Encampment in the second in- 
stance when the report of the Commit- 
tee of Election Returns is before it, the 
latter proceedings subject, of course, to 
the laws of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. 
— 1904, Pa. 250. 

508. The Sovereign Grand Lodge has 
reserved to itself the right to determine 
the qualifications of its own members, 
and it is, therefore, fully competent to 
take up the question of contest, reopen 
the report of the Committee on Election 
returns, and pass upon the merits of the 
entire question. — 1904, Pa. 252. 

509. P. G. Representative is not a 
higher rank or title than P. G. Master 
or P. G. Patriarch.— 5". G. L. 9371. 

510. A P. G. Representative is entitled 
to rank as such in every branch of the 
Order of which he is a member. — S. G. 
L. 9736. 

511. A Grand Representative whose 
credentials are accepted, and who at- 
tends one session and then resigns, does 
not forfeit the honors of the position, 
and is entitled to wear the regalia and 
jewel of the rank of P. G. Representa- 
tive.— 5". G. L. 9735- 

512. The Grand Representatives of this 
Grand Body are requested to omit from 
their report all reference to lodge laws 
and decisions, as our membership are 
informed thereof through the Repre- 
sentatives to that Grand Body and by 
the omission the Encampments will not 
be deceived into following legislation 
and decisions that are in no way appli- 
cable to the Patriarchal Branch of our 
Order. — 1906, Pa. 241. 



GRAND SCRIBE. 

[See Reports, and Per Capita Tax] 



513. The Grand Scribe is directed to 
have printed and forward to Scribes 
of Encampments the Sections of the 
general laws relating to the duties of 
Scribes to notify secretaries of lodges, 
when any of their members connect 
themselves with the encampments, and 
of the duty of secretaries to notify 
Scribes of the suspension, expulsion, 
or withdrawal of any of their members 
who are connected with the encamp- 
ments, also section relating to the drop- 
ping of members after one year's sus- 
pension in the lodge.— 1884, Pa. 34. 



514. The names of all the standing 
committees and the term of service 
shall be printed in the appendix to the 
Annual Journal. — 1893, Pa. 43. 

515. It shall be the duty of the Grand 
Scribe to mail a copy of the Officers 
Reports to each member of the Com- 
mittee on Judiciary and Committee on 
Legislation at least one week prior to the 
Annual Communication. — 1904, Pa. 323. 

516. Immediately after the election 
of a Grand Representative it shall be 



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the duty of the Grand Scribe to for- 
ward to the Grand Secretary of the 
S. G. L. a duplicate copy of said repre- 
sentative's certificate of election. — S. G. 
L. 2768. 

517. The Grand Scribe is only the 
agent or clerk of the Grand Patriarch, 
and therefore bound to obey his official 



behests where they do not conflict with 
the prescribed and legitimate duties of 
the Grand Scribe. The Grand Patriarch 
is amenable for any wrong he may com- 
mit to his Grand Encampment, and it 
is not the province of the Grand 
Scribe to traverse the action of the 
Grand Patriarch. — 5". G. L. 3413. 



HALL ASSOCIATIONS. 

[See Permission Granted, and Name] 



518. The use of the name, symbols, 
initials or emblems of the I. O. O. F. 
in connection with any enterprise to be 
known as an I. O. O. F, or Odd Fellows' 
Hall or Building Association, or I. O. 
O. F. or Odd Fellows' Building and 
Loan Association, or any such associa- 
tion limiting its membership to mem- 
bers of our Order, or any such associa- 
tion limiting its management to our 
membership is illegal. No Grand En- 
campment has any authority to give its 
sanction to any such enterprise. Any 



Odd Fellow violating the provisions of 
this resolution shall, on conviction 
thereof, be expelled. The several Grand 
Jurisdictions are requested and in- 
structed to enforce this law. Nothing 
herein shall be construed against or 
inhibit the building and support of any 
temples, widows' and orphans' homes, 
asylums, schools or halls which are 
used or to be erected and maintained 
within the legitimate purposes of the 
I. O. O. ¥.—S. G. L. 12677. 



HOMES. 

[See Inmates of Homes] 



519. The Grand Patriarch is author- 
ized to appoint a representative to the 
Widows' and Orphans' Home of Alle- 
gheny County annually.— 1891, Pa. 832. 

520. The Grand Patriarch is author- 
ized to appoint a member of this Grand 
Encampment to represent them in the 



Home for Orphans of Odd Fellows of 
Pennsylvania, located at Twentieth and 
Ontario Streets, Tioga. — 1855, Pa. 272. 

521. The Grand Patriarch is author- 
ized to appoint a representative from 
this Grand Body to the Rebekah Home 
at Philadelphia. — 1904, Pa. 328. 



HONORS OF OFFICE. 



522. Any officer of any subordinate 
encampment who shall serve in any 
office therein, either elective or ap- 
pointed, for a term or part of a term 
as provided by law shall be entitled to 
all the rights, privileges and honors 
conferred for faithful service in such 
office for a full term. The service for 
part of a term (to entitle to honors) 
is in cases where vacancies are filled. — 
S. G. L. 11744, 11893- 

523. Any officer of a subordinate en- 
campment who shall have served a 
majority of the meeting nights of a reg- 
ular term and shall have continued in 
office until the end thereof shall be 
deemed to have served a full term. A 
majority of the meeting nights of a 
six-months term of a subordinate en- 
campment is seven; of yearly terms, 



with semi-monthly meetings, thirteen, 
and with monthly meetings seven. — 
5". G. L. 1 1744. 

524. Any officer of a subordinate en- 
campment who has continued in office 
for a full term, but who, in consequence 
of sickness, has been unable to perform 
the duties of his office for a majority of 
nights in a term, and who was excused 
from time to time by his subordinate, 
shall be deemed to have served a full 
term in such office. The certificate of 
the Scribe to be of force in this state 
of the record should be executed by 
authority of the encampment. — 5. G. L. 
2309, 1 1744; 1903, S. G. L. 34. 

525. The officers of subordinates, 
where meetings are forbidden by gov- 
ernment quarantine for the major part 



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of a term, are entitled to the honors 
of ofifice if they are present at the meet- 
ings permitted during the term. — 
1900, 5. G. L. 505. 

526. An officer of a Grand or subordi- 
nate encampment who resigns after 
serving but a portion of his term for- 
feits the privileges and honors of the 
term, but where there is a salary at- 
tached to the office, he does not forfeit 
his right to his proportionate part of 
the salary, although the constitution of 
his encampment provides that " a 
brother elected to fill a vacancy is en- 
titled to the rights, privileges and hon- 
ors of the whole term." — 6*. G. L. 1198, 
2268. 

527. Any member who has been duly 
elected or appointed to fill a vacancy 
in any office in a subordinate encamp- 
ment, who shall have served a majorit}' 
of the meeting nights remaining in 
such unexpired term and to the end 
thereof, shall be deemed to have served 
a full term in such office. — 5". G. L. 
12211. 

528. When encampments merge dur- 
ing a term and thereby the officers of 
the merged body lose their positions, 
such officers shall not lose the honors 
of their said offices, but shall be en- 
titled to the same, provided they have 
served a majority of the meeting nights 
of the term prior to such mergement. 
—S. G. L. 1 1 723. 



529. The retiring Chief Patriarch is 
entitled to receive his certificate after 
his successor has been installed, pro- 
vided that he has served until the end 
of his term and a majority of the nights 
thereof.— 1884, Pa. 17. 

530. A Patriarch elected and installed 
and afterward has to leave the city, and 
cannot serve in the office, cannot receive 
the honors of the office, even if the 
encampment does not declare the office 
vacant. There is no way by which 
he can get the honors of the office, 
although the encampment is very desi- 
rous of his having the honors, if pos- 
sible. A Patriarch must serve the ma- 
jority of the nights of his term and to 
the end of the term, to receive the 
honors of the office. The only excuse 
that can be received is sickness of him- 
self. It is not within the province of the 
encampment to excuse a Patriarch, and 
thereby give him the honors. — 1897, Pa. 
15- 

531. The official term of Grand Offi- 
cers is one year, and they must serve 
for a major part of the term or they are 
not entitled to the past honors. — S. G. 
L. 5803. 

532. A Grand Officer who voluntarily 
withdraws from the duties of a station 
forfeits the honors thereof, and the suc- 
cessor who fulfills the duties of the 
unexpired term becomes entitled to said 
honors. — 5. G. L. 1244. 



IMPROPER CONDUCT. 

[See Charges and Trial] 



533. All members of the Order are in 
duty bound, while in their encampment, 
to be governed by the well-known 
usages of the Order, and in case of 
their refusal it is proper to prefer 



charges against them for conduct un- 
becoming an Odd Fellow. No member 
can claim indulgence on account of 
his official position in the Order. — 
S. G. L. 4241. 



INMATES OF HOMES. 

[See Homes, Benefits, and Dues] 



534. Grand Encampments may pro- 
vide, by appropriate legislation, that 
under their respective jurisdiction any 
encampment member who is now or who 
may hereafter become an inmate of any 
home for aged and indigent Odd Fel- 
lows shall thereby relinquish all claim 
for weekly benefits from his encamp- 
ment during the time he shall continue 
to be an inmate of such home, and such 
home shall continue to receive in its 
workings and operation the sanction 



and approval of the Grand Encamp- 
ment Jurisdiction in which said home 
shall be located. — 6'. G. L. 13041. 

535. During the time or times that 
any encampment shall be freed from the 
liability to pay weekly benefits to any 
of its members who may be inmates 
of such a home, because of any such 
relinquishment of weekly benefits, if 
authorized as stated in the preceding 
section by the Grand Encampment, no 



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weekly dues shall accrue against any 
such member, but he shall remain in 
good standing in every respect and par- 
ticular, without payment of weekly 
dues. — S. G. L. 11833, 13041. 

536. The Grand Encampment may 
also provide by appropriate legislation 
that any inmate of such a home who 
shall be a member of an encampment 
which, by the laws and regulations of 
such home, is not entitled to place 
therein any of its aged or indigent mem- 
bers, or if having been, such encamp- 



ment shall cease of its own default to 
be so entitled, then all such relinquish- 
ment of weekly benefits as to that en- 
campment shall be in favor of such 
home, and such encampment shall pay 
such weekly benefits to such home in- 
stead of to such member. — S. G. L. 
1 1833, 13041. 

537. A member of an encampment 
in the Masonic Home, Philadelphia, 
reported sick, is entitled to benefits if 
in good standing and otherwise entitled. 
— 1905, Pa. 22. 



INSANITY. 

[See Relief Committee, Benefits, Dues, Suspension for Non-Payment of Dues, and Wife] 



538. The Relief Committee of each 
encampment shall constitute the Com- 
mittee or Trustee of any member of 
such encampment disqualified, by insan- 
ity or otherwise, from asserting his 
legal rights, and it shall be their duty 
to disburse the benefits to which such 
member may be entitled for his support, 
maintenance and proper care. The acts 
of such committee shall be binding on 
the encampment and member in every 
respect. Provided, That their account 
shall be at all times subject to the 
examination of the encampment and the 



Grand Encampment. And provided 
further, That before any such committee 
shall be empowered to act, they shall 
procure in writing the assent of the 
wife, eldest child or next friend of the 
brother in whose case such action is 
deemed necessary. Provided further, 
That where there is a wife who was 
dependent upon the brother at the time 
the insanity occurred, the encampment 
shall pay the benefits to the wife unless 
she be not personally a proper person 
to receive them. — 1882, Pa. 305. 



INSTALLATION. 

[See District Deputy Grand Patriarchs, Special Deputy Grand Patriarch, Passwords, Elections, 

and Patriarchs Militant] 



539. An officer elected cannot be in- 
stalled in office by proxy. — 5. G. L. 4240. 

540. In the absence of the Grand Pa- 
triarch and all Past Grand Patriarchs, 
a Grand Representative or a Past Grand 
Representative can install the officers- 
elect of a Grand Encampment. — S. G. 
L. 10104. 

541. A D. D. G. Patriarch is not 
allowed to wear a Royal Purple Degree 
uniform while installing the officers in 
a subordinate encampment. — 1899, 5". G. 
L. 33. 

542. A D. D. G. Patriarch cannot wear 
the uniform of the Patriarchs Militant 
while installing the officers of a subor- 
dinate encampment, except when a can- 
ton or a delegation of chevaliers act as 
his escort and assist in the ceremonies, 
but in such case the D. D. G. P. shall 
also wear the jewel or regalia appro- 
priate to his office as such installing 
officer.— 1899, S. G. L. 34, 37o. 



543. It is not in the power of the 
Grand Patriarch to appoint any one but 
a Past Chief Patriarch to install officers 
of an encampment. The principle seems 
to be that no one should be appointed to 
administer an obligation who never has 
received it.—S. G. L. 10715. 

544. Any majority of legal voters is 
sufficient to elect an officer— two is as 
good as twenty. Should objection be 
made, unless there be a charge pending 
the duty of the installing officer is to 
install the officer. If an alleged dis- 
ability from being ineHgible, he may 
pause and examine that, and install or 
otherwise, as the validity of the objec- 
tion is established, or otherwise. But 
if grounds for a charge are alleged, and 
no charge pending, he must install, and 
that will not prevent the party ag- 
grieved from bringing charges after- 
wards.— 1874, Pa. 411. 

545. Should an insufficient reason be 
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non-attendance of an officer-elect upon 
the installation night, the installing offi- 
cer may require the encampment imme- 
diately to elect another to fill such 
office.— 5. G. L. 2215, 10254. 

546. The installation will be deferred 
if only one qualified installing officer 
be present. Where two Past Chief 



549. A re-elected officer is subject to 
the same ceremony of installation as 
when first elected and installed. — 5". G. 
L. 1 1892. 

550. The following is the form of 
commission issued to a Special District 
Deputy Grand Patriarch, appointed for 
installation. 



H. ©. ©. 3f. 

Jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania. 



Office of the District Deputy Grand Patriarch of County. 

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, THESE PRESENTS ARE SENT, GREETING: 

Know ye, That, by and in virtue of the General Powers in me vested, I have appointed our well- 
beloved Brother, Past Chief Patriarch 

SPECIAL DEPUTY, and I do hereby confer upon him full power and authority to INSTALL THE 
OFFICERS-ELECT OF 

for the Term Commencing the 

and to give the Check P. W. for the said Term to each C. P. and S. W. so installed ; also to give the 
A. T. P. W. and Ex. to the same Officers, to examine the reports to the Grand Encampment and if found 
correct require them to be immediately forwarded to the Grand Scribe and report to me the completion 
of the duties herein provided for without delay. 

AND THIS WARRANT shall remain in full force until the 

day of 190 



I SEAL I 



Given under my hand at. 

this 



.day of. 



.190 



District Deputy Grand Patriarch. 



Patriarchs are in attendance the cere- 
mony should proceed, the properly qual- 
ified officers taking two or more parts 
each in the work. — 6'. G. L. 11903. 

547. There can be no ceremony for 
installing into office any officer other 
than those officers designated by the 
S. G. L. — 1901, 6^. G. L. 44. 

548. An appeal affecting the eligibility of 
an officer-elect being taken from a decis- 
ion in his favor, he can be installed while 
the appeal is pending. — 1900, 5". G. L. 780. 



551. The election and installation into 
office of a member who is disqualified 
by law for such office is null and void, 
and should be so declared by the proper 
authority in the jurisdiction and the 
vacancy filled according to law. — S. G. 
L. 12797. 

552. An officer-elect being in good 
standing is eligible for installation. It 
is immaterial that he will become in 
arrears in a few days. — S. G. L. 15801. 



INSTITUTION OF ENCAMPMENTS. 

[See Charter, and Degrees] 



553- A Special deputy appointed to 
institute an encampment fulfills his 
duty when such encampment is insti- 
tuted and he has made report of the 
same. — 5. G. L. 4240. 

554. The Grand Patriarch on insti- 
tuting a new encampment opens an 
encampment in the Royal Purple De- 
gree.— 5. G. L. moo. 



555. On the day or night of the insti- 
tution of a new encampment, the Grand 
Patriarch or his duly cornmissioned 
Special Deputy is vested with power 
extraordinary, and, under such, can 
induct Scarlet Degree members into 
the Patriarchal Degree for the pur- 
pose of qualifying them as proper peti- 
tioners for the charter. The petitioners 
for a charter for an encampment almost 



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invariably have one or more candidates 
for membership on the day or night of 
its institution, and the entire number 
of charter members are present and can 
knowingly ballot upon the application 
for membership of the candidate they 
have induced to be present. It is much 
better for the new encampment that 
there should be one admitted, etc. ; and 
there is little difference, under the cir- 
cumstances, in inducting the petitioners 
into the degrees, or by conferring them 
regularly. It is therefore held that en- 
campments, on the day or night of in- 
stitution, may elect and admit applicants 
to membership. — S. G. L. 11488. 

556. It is not legal to institute an 
encampment with others than holders of 
legal withdrawal cards in a place where 
there is an encampment at work. At 
the time of institution, however, and 
afterwards other Third Degree Odd 
Fellows may be admitted as members 
of the new encampment, though they 



would not be strictly or legally charter 
members but are frequently regarded 
as such in general terms because ad- 
mitted on the date of the institution. 
—1903, 6^. G. L. 39- 

557. Grand Patriarchs and their duly 
commissioned special deputies are em- 
powered, under such rules and regula- 
tions as may be prescribed by the 
Grand Encampments, to confer the 
subordinate encampment degrees upon 
a sufficient number of Scarlet De- 
gree members of a subordinate lodge, 
for the purpose of qualifying them as 
proper petitioners for a warrant or 
charter for an encampment within their 
jurisdiction at a place where none exists. 
The words '' a sufficient number " is 
a limitation on the power of the Grand 
Patriarch and he has power to confer 
the degrees only on the minimum num- 
ber required by the local law to receive 
a charter for an encampment. — S. G. L. 
2630, 4364, 4878, 12252. 



INSURANCE. 

[See Permission Granted, and Name] 



558. It is illegal for any insurance 
company to use the name and emblems 
of the Order in transacting business — 
S. G. L. 1 1484. 

559. An advertisement to the effect 
that it will " insure the lives of none 
but Odd Fellows " is a right which the 
laws of the general country undoubtedly 



allow, and could be similarly applied 
to any society, sect or nation without 
injury, but when it comes to solicita- 
tion in lodges and encampments for 
purposes referred to, the interdictions 
of the Order hold good, and loyal 
brethren should respect the same. — 
5. G. L. 11484. 



INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. 

[See Application for Membership, and Proposition for Membership] 



560. The Chief Patriarch appoints the 
committee of investigation upon the 
reading of a proposition for member- 
ship. It does not require a motion to 
receive and refer it to a committee. — 
1875, Pa. 65. 

561. When a Committee of Investi- 



gation of a candidate make a report it 
does not necessarily require a motion 
to receive, and discharge the committee. 
It is proper, but not necessary, to make 
a motion to accept the report and dis- 
charge the committee. A motion is not 
necessary to ballot, which must be 
taken.— 1875, Pa. 65. 



JEWELS. 

[See Regalia] 



562. It is as imperative upon all 
Grand and subordinate encampments to 
furnish the officers of their respective 
encampments with the jewels appertain- 
ing to their rank and station as it is 
for the members thereof to be clothed 
in suitable regalia. — 5. G. L. 1290. 



563. All officers of subordinate en- 
campments shall wear the jewels of 
their office during the transaction of 
business. — vS. G. L. 443i- 

564. When the law requires that offi- 
cers shall wear jewels, it is not a 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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compliance therewith to have them 
wrought in the regalia. — 5. G. L. 5804. 

565. The jewel for a Past Grand Pa- 
triarch shall be of yellow metal, two 
and one-half inches in diameter, rim 
three-eighths of an inch wide, with 
double triangle, and rays extending from 
rim, and the letters P. G. P. in the centre 
of the triangles. — 5^. G. L. 4399- 

566. The jewel for a Grand Patriarch 
— A double triangle, of yellow metal, 
two and one-half inches in diameter, 
with a representation of an altar and 
two crossed crooks in the centre. — 
S. G. L. 4399; 1903, S". G. L. 294. 

567. The jewel for a District Deputy 
Grand Patriarch — A circular badge of 
yellow metal, two inches in diameter, 
with a purple enameled centre, one and 
one-quarter inches in diameter, the rim 
of the badge representing the rays of 
the sun. In white enamel on the purple 
field are an open tent with two crossed 
crooks and the letters I. O. O. F. below 
the tent, and the letters D. D. G. P. 
above it. — 1900, S. G. L. 815. 

568. The jewel for a Past District 
Deputy Grand Patriarch — The same 
jewel used for a D. D. G. P. with the 
letter P. in white enamel in the centre 
above the letters D. D. G. P. — 1903, 
6". G. L. 294. 

569. The jewels for the D. D. G. P. 
and P. D. D. G. P. are patented by the 
Sovereign Grand Lodge, and can be pur- 
chased from the Grand Secretary only, 
on orders from Grand Scribes. — 1903, 
5". G. L. 294. 

570. The jewel for a Grand High 
Priest — A double triangle, of yellow 
metal, two and one-half inches in 
diameter, with a representation of the 
breast-plate in the centre. — 1903, 5". G. 
L. 294. 

571. The jewel for a Grand Senior 
Warden — Same, with two crossed crooks 
in centre. — 1903, 6*. G. L. 294. 

572. The jewel for a Grand Junior 
Warden — Same, with single crook in 
centre.— 1903, 5". G. L. 294. 



573. The jewel for a Grand Scribe — 
Same, with two crossed pens in centre. 
—1903, S. G. L. 294. 

574. The jewel for a Grand Treas- 
urer — Same, with two crossed keys in 
centre. — 1903, 6". G. L. 294. 

575. The jewel for a Grand Sentinel 
— Same, with two crossed swords in 
centre.— 1903, 6^. G. L. 294. 

576. The jewel for a Chief Patriarch 
— One triangle, of yellow metal, two 
and one-half inches in diameter, with 
a representation of an altar and two 
crossed crooks in the centre. — 1903, 
S. G. L. 294. 

577. The jewel for a High Priest — 
Same, with breast-plate in centre. — 
1903, 5". G. L. 294. 

578. The jewel for a Senior Warden 
— Same, with two crossed crooks in 
centre. — 1903, 6". G. L. 294. 

579. The jewel for a Junior Warden 
— Same, with one crook in centre. — 



1903, S. G. L. 294. 



580. The jewel for a Recording or 
Financial Scribe — Same, with two 
crossed pens in centre. — 1903, S. G. L. 
294. 

581. The jewel for a Treasurer — 
Same, with two crossed keys in centre. 
—1903, 6*. G. L. 294. 

582. The jewels for the Sentinels — 
Same, with two crossed swords in cen- 
tre.— 1903, 5". G. L. 294. 

583. The jewel for a Guide — A staff, 
within a triangle, of yellow metal, three 
and one-half inches long. — 1903, 5". G. L. 
294. 

584. The jewel for a Guard of Tent 
— A halberd, within a triangle, of yel- 
low metal, two and one-half inches in 
diameter. — 1903, 6^. G. L. 294. 

585. The jewel for a Watch — A spear, 
within a triangle, of yellow metal, two 
and one-half inches in diameter. — 1903, 
5". G. L. 294. 



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LANGUAGE. 

[See Degrees, Work, Charges and Trial] 



586. An encampment, working in the 
language of a particular people, pos- 
sesses the right to receive and initiate 
an applicant who speaks and more thor- 
oughly understands another language, 
and for the purposes of interpretation 
and to convey a more complete knowl- 
edge of the ceremony, if it be possible, 
the ritualistic lectures and charges may 
be delivered in the mother tongue of the 
applicant; provided always, that the 
ritual shall have been published therein 
and that the passwords, etc., shall be 
communicated in English, the universal 
language for expressing the sounds 



of such symbolical words. 
11895- 



-S". G. L. 



587. The Grand Encampment is hereby 
authorized to permit encampments under 
their jurisdiction, working in foreign 
languages, to dispense with an Ameri- 
can copy of their records But it shall 
always be competent for said Grand 
Bodies or their proper executive officers, 
having jurisdiction over said encamp- 
ments, to compel them to furnish ex- 
tracts from their minutes translated into 
the English language whenever they 
shall require it. — S. G. L. 21 13. 



LIQUORS. 



588. All spirituous, vinous and malt 
liquors shall be excluded from the lodge 
rooms and ante-rooms or halls connected 
with or adjoining thereto under the con- 
trol of any subordinate or degree lodge 
or encampment of this Order. Every 



provision in conflict with the foregoing, 
as well as all regulations respecting the 
use of edibles in lodge and encampment 
rooms, heretofore passed are repealed. 
—S. G. L. 6108. 



LOTTERIES. 



589. No encampment or any of the 
members thereof shall in the name of 
the Order resort to any scheme of 
raffles, lotteries or gift enterprises or 
schemes of hazard or chance of any 



kind, as a means to raise funds for any 
purpose of relief or assistance to such 
subordinates or to individual members. 
-S. G. L. 3953. 



MANDATE. 

[See Grand Patriarch] 



590. An encampment must comply 
with the mandate of the Grand Patriarch 



before it can appeal — 1897, Pa. 30. 



MEETING PLACE. 



591. It is not within the power of a 
Grand Patriarch to authorize the re- 
moval of a subordinate encampment 
from one town or city to another; that 
power belongs to the Grand Encamp- 
ment. — S. G. L. 3181. 

592. There is no law requiring en- 
campments to meet in same room with 
a subordinate lodge. The encampment 
may select some other room, but before 
meeting in it, it must be examined and 
approved by the District Deputy Grand 
Patriarch of the District, and the con- 
sent of the Grand Patriarch be obtained. 
—1875, Pa. 65. 

593. It would not be lawful for an 
encampment to go to another town and 
confer the Patriarchal and Golden Rule 



Degrees for the convenience of the 
members in their own lodge-room, for 
the reason that the law fixes the time 
when and the place where an encamp- 
ment shall transact its business, and 
neither can be changed at the caprice 
or pleasure of a Grand Patriarch. 
An encampment is not an itinerant in- 
stitution, traveling hither and thither to 
suit the convenience of applicants for 
membership; members secured in that 
manner are scarcely worth having. — 
1888, Pa. 481. 

594. It is lawful for a Grand Patriarch 
to grant permission to an encampment 
to hold their meetings in some other 
suitable hall, until their hall is repaired, 
when it was partially destroyed by fire. 
—1876, Pa. 204. 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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MEETINGS. 

(a) Of Subordinate Encampments. 

(b) Of Grand Encampment. 

[See Recess] 



(a) Of Subordinate Encampments. 



595. Meetings of all subordinate en- 
campments must be held semi-monthly, 
except that in case of yearly terms, such 
encampments may be permitted by their 
Grand Encampments to hold their meet- 
ings monthly instead of semi-monthly. 
— S. G. L. 1 1744. 

596. The Grand Patriarch has no au- 
thority to grant a dispensation to a sub- 
ordinate encampment to suspend its 
meetings for six months or any other 
period of time. — 1875, Pa. 148. 

597. Meetings of all subordinate en- 
campments must be held on a weekday 
and on regular specified days in the 
week. — 5". G. L. 11744. 

598. No encampment shall hold any 
meeting for work or business upon 
Sunday, except for funeral purposes. 
—S. G. L. 4834. 

599. Sunday should be rigidly ob- 
served by members and all organiza- 
tions of the Order. — 1900, S. G. L. 530. 

600. It is lawful for subordinate en- 
campments, whenever their regular 
meeting nights fall on the date of the 
national anniversary, Thanksgiving, or 
other legally established and generally 
recognized holidays, to omit such meet- 
ings.— 5. G. L. 10473. 

601. An encampment _ cannot legally 
hold an adjourned meeting for the pur- 
pose of conferring degrees and to trans- 
act business in any form. If a special 
meeting is required it can be called in 
the manner pointed out by the By-laws. 
— 1903, Pa. 22. 

602. It is not legal in any encampment 
to transact any business after twelve 
o'clock midnight of the day it has 
named in its laws as its day of meeting 
—1877, Pa. 386. 

603. The order of business as laid 
down in the Charge Book must be gone 
through with and the encampment 
closed in due form at every meeting. 
The Chief Patriarch should not permit 
Patriarchs to retire in such numbers 
as to leave less than a quorum present. 
—1875, Pa. 66. 



604. As to which chairs should be 
filled in case there should be only five 
members present at the meeting of an 
encampment, they must be governed by 
circumstances, and distribute the officers 
in such a manner as to best facilitate 
its business, and for the proper protec- 
tion of the encampment during its ses- 
sion. — 1880, Pa. 98. 

605. An officer who comes into the 
encampment room after the roll call is 
finished and the other business of the 
encampment is under way is entitled 
to be considered as present. The roll 
book is prima facia evidence of absence 
at roll call, but not conclusive as to 
absence for the evening. It is the duty 
of an officer who enters the encampment 
after roll call to report his presence to 
the Scribe, who shall make a note of 
such presence on the minutes, where- 
upon the officer shall have credit for 
such presence. — 1904, Pa. 321. 

606. The Scribe can lawfully mark 
those officers present on the roll, who 
are there at the time for opening the 
encampment, if there be no quorum 
present. Should the encampment fail 
to meet for want of a quorum, it is 
the duty of the Scribe to record the 
fact upon the minutes, also making a 
minute of the officers who are present, 
as well as marking them present upon 
the roll.— 1875, Pa. 65. 

607. The roll book is prima facia evi- 
dence of the attendance of an officer 
and should be so considered. But this 
should not be so construed that other 
evidence than the roll book cannot be 
admitted as such construction might 
wrong Patriarchs who had been present, 
arriving at the encampment after the 
roll call, and did faithful service in an 
office. For in fact other evidence than 
the roll book, to prove presence, may 
be admitted ; the sufficiency of such 
evidence to be determined by a vote of 
the encampment. — 1884, Pa. 39. 

608. A Patriarch not in possession of 
all the encampment degrees cannot be 
admitted to or remain in the ante-room 
while the encampment is open in a 



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higher degree than any he has received. 
The Check P. W. can gain his admit- 
tance to the ante-room only while the 
encampment is open in a degree to 
which he has already attained. — 1875, 
Pa. 66. 

609. A member of an encampment 
clothed in street uniform presenting 
himself for admission while the en- 
campment is transacting its ordinary 
business shall be treated the same as 
if he presented himself without such 
uniform. — S. G. L. 66g6. 

610. A member clad in R. P. Degree 
uniform is entitled to visit an encamp- 
ment if he also wears the regalia. — 
1900, 5". G. L. 510. 

611. If there is no quorum present on 
a majority of the nights of the term so 
that there can be no business transacted 
it does not deprive those of the elective 
officers who are there to perform their 
duties but cannot on account of no 
quorum, from the honors of the office. 
Any officer present a majority of the 
regular meeting nights in a term, is 
entitled to the honors of the office, 
which, however, are forfeited by resig- 



nation, suspension or expulsion. The 
officers are, however, expected to use 
due diligence to endeavor to secure the 
attendance of a sufficient number, at 
least, of the members to enable the 
encampment to transact its business. — 
1875, Pa. 65. 

612. The S. W. can be placed in 
charge of the door of an encampment 
during regular business, but it must be 
done by the C. P., and not by the en- 
campment, and when the door is so 
placed in charge of the S. W. the 
inside sentinel reports to that officer. — 
S. G. L. 8739. 

613. No officer or member can enter 
or retire from an encampment, when 
open and working as such, without 
observing the usual formalities, addres- 
sing the chairs, etc., except the J. W. 
in charge of a candidate. — S. G. L. 5280. 

614. The only time a member can be 
refused admission during the session 
of an encampment is while the degrees 
are being conferred, or during installa- 
tion, even on election night. — 1878, Pa. 
443- 



(6) Of Grand Encampment. 



615. The Grand Sire has no power to 
change the date of the sessions of a 
Grand Body, the constitution of such 
Grand Body fixing the date of its an- 
nual session. — S. G. L. 12788. 

616. When there are two halls in the 
same city in which a Grand Encamp- 
ment has held sessions, it would be the 
duty of the Grand Patriarch, in the ab- 
sence of any legislation on the subject, to 
call the next meeting in the hall where 
it held its last session unless there was 
some cause for changing the place of 
meeting to the other hall. — S. G. L. 2859. 

617. By the general law a representa- 
tive to a Grand Encampment who does 
not attend the sessions thereof is not 
entitled to mileage and per diem should 
mileage or per diem be paid by local 
law. — 1900, 5". G. L. 511. 



618. When the By-laws of a sub- 
ordinate Grand Body provide for an 
" Annual " Session of the said Grand 
Body, they mean exactly what is 
expressed by the letter of the law; 
and, should the time of holding such 
"Annual" Session be so changed as 
(by the literal and non-comparative 
interpretation thereof) to make two 
sessions of the said Grand Body occur 
during the same year, the previous 
legislation specifying an " Annual " 
Session should govern, and the body 
which (for example) held its session 
in February, 1890, cannot meet in 
" Annual " Session again that year, 
though the date of meeting be placed 
in October or any other month sub- 
sequent to February, except by a special 
enactment providing therefor. — S. G. L. 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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MEMBERSHIP. 

(a) Qualification for Membership. 

(6) Election to Membership. 

(c) Classes of Members. 

{d) In But One Encampment. 

[See Application for Membership, Proposition for Membership, Admission, Investigating Committee, 
Suspended Member, Non-Beneficial, and Saloon Keeper— Bartender] 



(a) Qualification for Membership. 



619. An encampment by its By-laws 
attempted to supply an omission in the 
general laws concerning qualification for 
membership. No matter how merito- 
rious the By-law may be, it cannot be 
permitted to regulate or create new con- 
ditions to admission to membership in 
an encampment. The right to do so 
is vested exclusively in the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge. It must be apparent 
that any other rule would only result 
in great injustice, and want of harmony 
in the work of the encampment. — 1901, 
Fa. 144. 

620. To acquire or retain membership 
in an encampment of Patriarchs full 
membership and good standing in a 
subordinate lodge in good standing is 
indispensably necessary. — S. G. L. 811, 
954, 1148, 3412. 

621. A certificate of the secretary of 
the subordinate lodge of which the 
applicant is a member, with the seal 
attached, shall accompany all applica- 
tions for membership made to a subor- 
dinate encampment, and it is the duty 
of every secretary to fill out and furnish 
to any Scarlet Degree meniber who is 
in good standing such certificate upon 
application therefor, and no vote of the 
lodge is necessary for such certificate. 
—S. G. L. 10523, 4466. 

622. It is unlawful to refuse to a 
brother in good standing a certificate 
of his standing in the lodge, to be filed 
with an application for membership in 
an encampment. — 1900, S. G. L. 518. 

623. A brother of the Scarlet Degree 
in good standing desiring a certificate 
of his grade to enable him to join an 
encampment is entitled to receive the 
same from the secretary of the lodge, in 
due form, upon application, and no vote 
of the lodge is necessary for such certi- 
ficate. — S. G. L. 4466. 

624. The only disabilities of a member 
of a lodge who is also a member of an 
encampment for which the Secretary 



of a lodge is to notify the Scribe of an 
encampment, are when the brother takes 
a withdrawal card and of his suspen- 
sion or expulsion. — S. G. L. 3956. 

625. In any and every case notice must 
be given by the subordinate lodge to the 
subordinate encampment on the rein- 
statement of an expelled brother. A 
subordinate lodge is the proper tribu- 
nal to try all cases of delinquency when 
the charge is cognizable under the law. 
It is made the duty of Secretaries to 
advise Scribes in a reasonable time as 
to any member of their lodges who is 
also a member of an encampment who 
is suspended, expelled or reinstated, — 
S. G. L. 8370. 

626. A brother, who is a member in 
good standing of a lodge in one State 
and at the same time a resident in 
another State, is a proper candidate for 
initiation into an encampment at the 
place of his residence. And any law 
of a Grand Encampment to the contrary 
is void. — 5". G. L. 1029, 5924. 

627. It is improper to confer an en- 
campment degree upon one holding a 
withdrawal card from a subordinate 
lodge. — 5". G. L. 2404. 

628. When a member of an encamp- 
ment in good standing takes a with- 
drawal card from the subordinate lodge 
of which he may be a member, his mem- 
bership in his encampment shall not be 
afifected thereby for a year from the 
date of his said withdrawal card. He 
shall be considered in good standing_ in 
his encampment if he deposits his with- 
drawal card in a subordinate lodge and 
becomes a member thereof at any time 
within a year from the date of his said 
withdrawal card ; provided, he shall 
keep his dues paid up to the encamp- 
ment during that time. — S. G. L. 4318. 

629. The suspension of a member of 
an encampment for non-payment of dues 
by his lodge shall not affect the standing 
of said member in his encampment for 



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the term of one year thereafter, pro- 
vided the Patriarch shall not rest under 
any disability during the interim in his 
encampment. — S. G. L. 7y66. 

630. Where a withdrawal card is de- 
posited with the Grand Secretary during 
the life of said card on application for 
a charter, the brother holding such with- 
drawal card does not lose his member- 
ship in his encampment, although the 
charter for the subordinate lodge is not 
granted until after one year from the 
date of the card. — S. G. L. 12238. 

631. The force and effect of the law 
regulating membership in the Patriarchal 
branch of the Order is not checked or 
destroyed by the neglect or failure of 
the Secretary of a lodge to give notice 
to an encampment of either the granting 
of a withdrawal card to one of its mem- 
bers, who is also a member of an en- 
campment, or the renewal of member- 
ship in a lodge by deposit of card; but 
whenever an encampment is satisfied 
of the fact, in whatever form it may be 
presented, of the withdrawal of one of 
its members from a lodge or the re- 
newal of his membership in a lodge in 
either case it is sufficient under the 
existing law to establish the status of 
the encampment membership. — S. G. L. 
3876. 

632. If a Patriarch regains member- 
ship in the lodge after the year expires, 
he can only regain membership in his 
encampment by applying for reinstate- 
ment therein and being admitted with 
all the formalities connected with a 
reinstatement. — 5". G. L. 12354. 

62,3. An encampment has a right to 
withold benefits from a Patriarch, pro- 
vided it has reason to believe he has been 
suspended from his lodge for one year 
and may communicate with the lodge to 
ascertain if such is the fact. If he is 
not suspended, but his name is still on 
the roll of the lodge, and he is in good 
standing in the encampment, the en- 
campment is bound to pay his benefits 
without further reference to his stand- 
ing in the lodge. — 1875, Pa. 64. 

634. A Patriarch suspended in his 
lodge for non-payment of dues at the 
end of one year is ipse facto suspended 
from his encampment without any action 
on the part of the encampment; when 
reinstated by his lodge he is also rein- 
stated in the encampment, and becomes 
a member in good standing by paying 
the amount of dues owing by him at the 
time of his suspension, without any 



action on the part of the encampment. 
The same power which suspends re- 
stores. He should be noted on the 
books of the encampment as being re- 
instated on the meeting next succeed- 
ing his reinstatement in his lodge and 
in all other respects he is governed by 
the laws relative to reinstated members. 
—1875, Pa. 64. 

635. A member of an encampment 
has been in an insane asylum for years 
and a member of a subordinate lodge 
up to the term ending in March, when 
he was suspended, but was not beneficial 
in his lodge at the time he was placed in 
the asylum, and his wife has been pay- 
ing his dues in the encampment to keep- 
him beneficial, and have been paying 
benefits ever since he was placed in the 
asylum. His suspension from the sub- 
ordinate lodge does not sever his con- 
nection with the encampment after one 
year from the date of his suspension nor 
as long as he remains irrational. — 1903, 
Pa. 23. 

62,6. A brother who is not beneficial 
(but not suspended) in his subordinate 
lodge can legally receive benefits from 
his encampment, he being otherwise 
beneficial in the encampment. The en- 
campment has nothing whatever to do 
with the question of a brother's title to 
benefits in his lodge. So long as he is 
a member of a lodge and has complied 
with the By-laws of the encampment 
he is entitled to benefits in the encamp- 
ment, without any reference as to his 
financial standing in the subordinate 
lodge.— 1875, Pa. 64. 

62>7. A temporary abeyance from bene- 
fits in a lodge, under the law thereof, and 
where there has been no action of the 
lodge in suspending therefrom, does not 
work a forfeiture of benefits in an en- 
campment where the brother is free from 
indebtedness therein. — 1904, Pa. 259. 

638. A member suspended from his 
lodge for non-payment of dues is privi- 
leged to keep himself in good standing 
for one year from such suspension. If, 
however, he becomes twelve months in 
arrears in his encampment he is liable 
to suspension therefrom irrespective of 
his standing in his lodge. — 1894, Pa. 182. 

639. When a brother is a member of 
both a subordinate lodge and encamp- 
ment, and his subordinate lodge shall 
become extinct, and by reason of age 
or infirmity he cannot successfully apply 
for membership in another subordinate 
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card from the Grand Secretary of his 
jurisdiction he shall be entitled to retain 
membership in his encampment upon 
said card. — 5'. G. L. 8358. 

640. A Patriarch whose lodge becomes 
defunct can retain his membership in 
the encampment for one year, he not 
having joined any lodge afterwards. A 
subordinate lodge that becomes defunct 
shall not affect the standing of said 
member in his encampment for the 
term of one year thereafter, provided 
the Patriarch shall not rest under any 
disability during the interim in his 
encampment. — 1903, Pa. 22. 

641. A member of an encampment, 
who is suspended in his lodge for a 
definite period and who during such 
period of suspension continues to pay 
his dues to his encampment, as re- 
quired by the By-laws, on his restora- 
tion to membership in his lodge is ipso 
facto reinstated in his membership in 
the encampment. His encampment had 
the right to proceed against him, but 
it having failed to do so, and rested 
upon the action and punishment by the 
lodge, when that punishment terminates 
by lapse of time and he is restored to 
membership in his lodge his encamp- 
ment is bound to receive him. — S. G. L. 
3357- 

642. A suspended member on his res- 
toration to membership in his lodge is 
ipso facto reinstated in his encampment, 
provided the suspended member con- 
tinues to pay his dues to the encamp- 
ment during the period of his suspen- 
sion. An expelled member cannot com- 
ply with the condition, payment of 
dues during suspension, which is indis- 
pensable to restoration in the encamp- 
ment without formal action upon rein- 
statement in the encampment. — v?. G. L. 
8371. 

643. A Patriarch who is under sus- 
pension for cause in his lodge is not 
entitled to visit his own or another 
encampment during the period of his 
suspension. If such a brother, absent 
with a visiting card or official certificate, 
should nevertheless visit, he may have 
charges preferred against him for con- 
duct unbecoming an Odd Fellow. — 1904, 
6". G. L. 538, 752, 820. 

644. One expelled from the Order is 
not a non-affiliate; he is not a member 
or gwa^ji-member of the Order under any 
jurisdiction. Expulsion from the sub- 
ordinate lodge is absolute and severs 
membership totally from the lodge, en- 
campment and canton. While the right 



of appeal is sacred under the law, yet 
a member expelled from a subordinate 
lodge stands expelled until the order 
from the Grand Lodge or S. G. L. for 
his reinstatement to membership reaches 
the subordinate lodge. — 5. G. L. 6274, 
1 1482. 

645. An appeal to the S. G. L. gives 
to the member of the Order under 
penalty who is interested therein no 
additional privileges and no different 
position from those he enjoys and occu- 
pies under the laws of his Grand Lodge, 
— 5*. G. L. 903. 

646. When the lodge of a Patriarch 
is suspended his membership in the en- 
campment also ceases, and upon the 
reinstatement of his lodge and his re- 
election in the encampment, he cannot 
be charged by his encampment with 
dues accruing during the time his lodge 
was so suspended. — S. G. L. 1392. 

647. By the suspension of a lodge its 
rights as a lodge cease temporarily, and 
this temporary disability attaches as 
well to the members individually as 
collectively. A member thus situated 
is not allowed to visit in the brother- 
hood or to represent his lodge in the 
Grand Lodge. If he is a member of a 
subordinate encampment, his member- 
ship is affected in such encampment, 
and he has no right while the disability 
lasts, to visit that or any other encamp- 
ment any more than he is permitted to 
visit any other subordinate lodge. He 
cannot hold office in or visit a Grand 
Encampment. — S. G. L. 1148. 

648. A member of a lodge, who is also 
a member of an encampment, and was 
in good standing in his lodge at the time 
of the suspension of said lodge, loses 
his membership in the encampment — 
except that when a brother is a member 
of both a lodge and encampment, and 
his lodge shall become extinct and by 
reason of age or infirmity he cannot 
successfully apply for membership in 
another lodge, upon his obtaining a 
Grand Lodge card from the Grand Sec- 
retary of his jurisdiction he shall be 
entitled to retain membership in his 
encampment upon said card. — S. G. L. 
2701, 9852, 8358. 

649. When a lodge is suspended and 
its charter taken away, such of its 
members as belong to the encampment 
branch are likewise suspended. In 
such cases notice should be given of 
such suspension to the respective en- 
campments to which they belong. — S. 
G. L. 9853. 



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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



(6) Election to Membership. 



650. Applications for admission to 
membership in encampments are deter- 
mined by ballot, but it is left to State 
legislation to decide the manner and 
how many black balls are required to 
reject; provided, there is no conflict 
with the secret work, which is the para- 
mount law — S. G. L. 1 147, 6235. 

651. A brother cannot be elected to 
membership in an encampment at the 
same session at which his petition is 
presented. When there is no local law 
to the contrary, the Grand Patriarch 
may grant necessary dispensations, ac- 
cording as the exigencies of the case 
may require, to an encampment to re- 
ceive, cause the investigating committee 
to report thereon and ballot upon the 
application of a petitioner for member- 
ship, and if the applicant is elected, to 
confer the three degrees upon the can- 
didate all during the same meeting. — 
vS". G. L. 1 1 104, 1 1487. 

652. The membership and obligation 
to pay dues of one joining an en- 
campment commence at the time he 
receives the Patriarchal Degree. — 5. G. 
L. 3031. 

653. Membership in a subordinate en- 
campment when acquired by depositing 



a card, dates from the time of signing 
the constitution. — 1874, Pa- 4ii- 

654. It is illegal for an encampment 
to provide that a member may, by vote 
of the encampment within a specified 
time after taking his card, deposit it 
and regain membership thereby. The 
laws of the Order clearly provide the 
way in which a person may regain mem- 
bership upon a card, and a lodge grant- 
ing a final card has no more power to 
depart from that way, when the person 
holding the card seeks to reunite with 
said lodge, than upon the application 
of a stranger. — S. G. L. 3182. 

655. In no case can an encampment 
adopt a By-law for the admission of 
members by deposit of card in any dif- 
ferent way from that pointed out by the 
general law, viz., by application, refer- 
ence to a committee and ballot, as in 
case of an original application for mem- 
ship. The law applies to a case where 
a member draws his final card for the 
declared purpose of establishing a new 
encampment, and after having organ- 
ized the new encampment and taken a 
withdrawal card from it, he offers the 
card for deposit in his own encamp- 
ment within a specified time from the 
date of his withdrawal therefrom. — 
5*. G. L. 6201, 7395. 



{c) Classes of Members. 



656. The several jurisdictions subor- 
dinate to the S. G. L. are hereby recom- 
mended to provide such suitable legis- 
lation as may be requisite to enable 
working encampments to receive as non- 
beneficial members such members of 
defunct encampments as were in good 
standing at the time of the dissolution 
of their respective encampments, and 
who by reason of their advanced age 
are now ineligible to beneficial member- 
ship. — 5*. G. L. 3690. 

657. A third-degree brother over fifty 
years of age in good standing cannot be 
admitted to honorary membership in an 
encampment by initiation. — 1901, 5". G. 
L. 24. 

658. An encampment cannot initiate 
a candidate to become a non-beneficial 
member except in a non-beneficial en- 
campment. — 1905, Pa. 95. 

659. Non-affiliated Odd Fellows who 
have retained membership in the Order 
for at least five consecutive years, who 
shall be over fifty years of age and who 



are not under expulsion for cause, may 
be admitted to membership in any en- 
campment as non-beneficial members 
upon such terms as the local law may 
prescribe.— 5. G. L. 4884, 6984, 7856. 

660. After a Patriarch has become 
sixty years of age and has been a con- 
tributing member for twenty-five con- 
secutive years, his name shall not be 
dropped from the roll by virtue of his 
being more than one year in arrears 
for non-payment of dues, but he shall 
be retained as a non-contributing mem- 
ber, and as such shall be entitled to the 
password and fellowship of encamp- 
ments. Such non-contributing member 
shall have all the privileges of active 
members except benefits, and subordinate 
encampments shall not be compelled to 
pay per capita tax on such non-contrib- 
uting members. Such non-contributing 
members may be reinstated in the man- 
ner as provided for the reinstatement of 
dropped members by the constitution 
and By-laws of the several jurisdictions. 
— 1901, S. G. L. 294, 1902, 5^. G. L. 1012. 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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(d) In But One Encampment. 



66i. No person shall at the same time 
hold membership in more than one 
Grand and subordinate lodge and one 



Grand and subordinate encampment. — 
5. G. L. By-laws. 



NAME. 
[See Charter] 



662. The name of no living person 
shall be used as the chartered name or 
title for any encampment, to be insti- 
tuted under the immediate jurisdiction 
of the S. G. L. or under that of any 
jurisdiction subordinate thereto. This 
law cannot be evaded by dropping the 
given name of the person. — S. G. L. 
5153, 8839. 

663. Any Grand Encampment may per- 
mit the use of the names and numbers of 
extinct subordinate encampments in their 
respective jurisdictions. — 5. G. L. 9698. 

664. No encampment can adopt any 
other name than that designated in the 
charter, except in the manner prescribed 
for changing names by the local Grand 
jurisdiction. It has therefore not the 
right to add the word " uniform " to 
its name without authority. The wear- 
ing of uniforms is purely a voluntary 
matter, and anything that would di- 
rectly or indirectly compel members to 
procure them would be highly objec- 
tionable.— 6". G. L. 8345. 

665. Whenever a subordinate encamp- 
ment shall for any purpose desire to 
change its name, a resolution shall be 
presented to the encampment setting 
forth all the reasons why the change 
should be made and thereupon the action 



of the encampment upon the resolution 
shall be the same as is prescribed by 
the Constitution for Subordinate En- 
campments for the change of meeting 
place. If the action on said resolution 
be favorable and the same shall be so 
certified as required by said constitution, 
the Grand Patriarch shall present the 
same to a meeting of the Board of 
Grand Officers, when if approved by 
them, the proper endorsement shall be 
made by the Grand Patriarch and at- 
tested by the Grand Scribe over the 
seal of the Grand Encampment on the 
charter of the encampment certifying 
to the change of name, whereupon the 
encampment shall be known by the 
name, style and title which it has 
adopted in accordance with these rules. 
Provided, nevertheless, that this change 
of name shall in no way affect the rights 
and liabilities of the encampment or its 
members as acquired or incurred under 
the old name. — 1907, Pa. Board of Grand 
OMcers. 

666. A band has no right to use the 
name of the Patriarch Militant either 
with or without permission of the P. 
M. authorities, and if the persons com- 
posing the band are members of the 
Order, charges can be preferred against 
them in their lodges and encampments. 
—S. G. L. 15213. 



NOMINATIONS, 

[See Elections] 



667. In nominations for Grand Junior 
Warden, the names shall be written on 
cards of equal size and be deposited in 
a box and be drawn therefrom under 
the direction of the Grand Patriarch. 



The record shall be made by the 
Grand Scribe in the order in which 
the names are drawn from the box and 
announced by the Grand Patriarch. — 
1897, Pa. 212. 



NON=BENEFICIAL. 

[See Membership] 



668. The question was asked. Is there 
any law which will allow an encamp- 
ment to admit non-beneficial members 
to the Patriarchal Order, without the 
encampment first becoming non-benefi- 
6 



cial? Answer — No. Not under the 
present condition of the legislation of 
the Grand Encampment on the subject. 
If the Grand Encampment had adopted 
the resolutions of the Sovereign Grand 



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Lodge on the subject in their entirety, 
the answer would be, Yes. — 1906, Pa. 
172. 

669. The answer to the question, If 
an encampment should vote to become 
a non-beneficial encampment under Ar- 
ticle XI, Section i, of the Constitution 
of the Grand Encampment, what would 
become of the trust funds? is that said 
trust funds remain trust funds and can 
only be applied for the purpose for 
which they were collected, notwithstand- 
ing the fact that the encampment may 
vote to become non-beneficial. — 1906> 
Pa. 259. 

670. At the session of the S. G. Lodge 
in 1906 the following resolution was 
offered : 



"Resolved, That the laws governing 
the encampment branch of the Order be 
amended by inserting the following sec- 
tion : ' Grand Encampments may grant 
any subordinate encampment in its 
jurisdiction the right to establish by 
by-law a class of non-beneficial mem- 
bers, the fees for the degrees for such 
class to be not less than one dollar for 
each degree, and the dues not less than 
one dollar per annum for each member 
in said class.' " 

The report of the Committee on Leg- 
islation, to which the above was re- 
ferred, was adopted as follows: 

" That the Grand Encampments are 
now clothed with full power in the 
premises, and further legislation is un- 
necessary." — 1906, S. G. L. 77^- 



NON=BENEFICIAL MEMBERSHIP. 

[See Membership] 

NON=CONTRIBUTING MEMBERSHIP. 

[See Membership] 



NOTICE. 

[See Charges and Trial] 



671. The notice required by the Con- 
stitution for Subordinate Encampments 
to be served upon the accused when 
charges are preferred, shall be served 
by the Scribe, either handing the same 



to the accused personally or serving 
notice by registered letter, the letter 
to be plainly marked " To be deliv- 
ered to the addressee only." — 1906, Pa. 
241. 



OFFICERS OF ENCAMPMENTS. 

[See Eligibility to Office, Chief Patriarch, Honors of Office, and Terms] 



672. The officers of a subordinate en- 
campment are Chief Patriarch, High 
Priest, Senior Warden, Scribe (Finan- 
cial Scribe and Recording Scribe if 
Grand Encampment permit). Treasurer 
and Junior Warden, who are elected by 
the encampment; Guide, Sentinel, Out- 
side Sentinel, First, Second, Third and 
Fourth Watches, who are appointed by 
the C. P., and First and Second Guards 
of Tent, who are appointed by the H, 
F.—S. G. L. 5844. 

672,. The duties of the C P. and other 
officers are prescribed by and contained 
in the charge-books of the Order — 
5. G. L. Digest 1847, 58. 

674. The executive officers of subor- 
dinate encampments are the Chief Pa- 
triarch and Scribe of the encampment. 
—S. G. L. 1 1892. 



675. The questions propounded to the 
Chief Patriarch at installations, together 
with the answers, impose obligations 
which cannot be rejected or violated 
with impunity. — S. G. L. 3181. 

676. A C P. who has declared a pend- 
ing motion illegal, and whose decision 
has been reversed by the encampment 
on an appeal to it, has no right to refuse 
to put the motion and vacate the chair. 
5". G. L. 5281, 5919. 

677. A F. W. can put a motion if 
placed in the chair of the C. P. while 
he (the C. P.) temporarily absents him- 
self from said chair, but does not leave 
the encampment room. — i'. G. L. 9504. 

678. If the C. _P. -elect does not appear 
at the time for installation, the encamp- 
ment may install the other officers and 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



83 



the preliminary questions may be read 
in their hearing. In the absence of 
direct provision for the encampment 
in these matters, the law as to subor- 
dinate lodges is a proper guide, and 
for that reason the C P. in office should 
continue in that office until the installa- 
tion of his successor, if the installa- 
tion of the C. P. -elect is for any good 
reason postponed. This is preferable 
to allowing an indefinite interregnum in 
the office of C. P., with the S. W. oc- 
cupying his chair. — 6". G. L. 8210. 

679. In the absence of the C. P. it is 
not only the right, but the duty of the 
S. W. to take the place of the superior 
officer and perform all his functions. 
In the absence of the C P. the S. W. 
is de facto C. P. and may confer de- 
grees. He has the right, however, to 
invite a P. C. P. to occupy the chair 
during initiation, conferring the degrees 
or upon occasion of a Grand visitation. 
It is legal for the S. W. acting as C. P. 
of an encampment to give the term or 
A. T. P. W. to initiates or to a brother 
in good standing when required. — 
S. G. L. 9159. 

680. It is not compulsory for an en- 
campment to advance the Senior War- 
den to the chair of Chief Patriarch. — 
1903, Pa. 24, 172. 



681. There is no reason why the J. 
W. shall not preside in the absence of 
C. P. and S. W. if the local laws do not 
prohibit it. — S. G. L. 11 13. 

682. The Junior Warden of an en- 
campment, acting for the Senior War- 
den in his absence, may take the chair 
of the Chief Patriarch when the Chief 
Patriarch and Senior Warden both are 
absent, if the local law does not pro- 
hibit; but would suggest upon such an 
occasion if there be a Past Chief Patri- 
arch present he be asked to take the 
principal chair. — 1903, Pa. 23. 

683. A Junior Warden who by reason 
of the absence of the Senior Warden 
performs the duties of that office for a 
majority of the nights of the term does 
not thereby become entitled to the hon- 
ors of a Past Senior Warden and he 
will therefore need a dispensation for 
a term of service before he can be 
elected Chief Patriarch. — 1874, Pa. 409. 

684. The Grand Encampment requires 
the Scribes of encampments to notify 
each lodge whose member becomes a 
Patriarch, on admission to the said en- 
campment, in order to promptly trans- 
mit one to the other reciprocal official 
notifications. — S. G. L. 8049. 



PARAPHERNALIA. 

[See Degrees, and Work] 



685. The paraphernalia used in the 
secret work cannot be worn by the offi- 
cers on a public occasion of any kind. 
—5". G. L. 14683, 4467. 

686. It is a violation of law to have 
photographs taken of a degree staff in 
its paraphernalia, even if such pictures 
are to be hung in the encampment room 



and none are sold or offered for sale. 
— 1 90 1, S. G. L. 40. 

687. The costumes used in conferring 
lodge and encampment degrees form 
part of the paraphernalia belonging to 
the secret work, and it is improper to 
make a public display of them. — 5*. G. 
L. 1 1892. 



PASSWORDS. 

(a) General Provisions. 
(6) A. T. P. W. 

{c) Semi-annual or T. P. W. 

[See Cards, Installation, and Terms] 



(a) General Provisions. 



688. The signs, grips and passwords 
of the Order are designed to speak one 
universal language to the initiated of 
every nationality the world over. There- 
fore the Annual and T. P. W. of the 
degrees are not to be translated into 



any other language, or spoken other 
than as they are written, spelled and 
pronounced in the English language, 
the different nations must learn to give 
them the one universal sound as nearly 
as possible, so that the sound of the 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



word will be as familiar to the ear as 
the signs are to the eye, or the grip 
to the touch of the hand, to the end 
that an Odd Fellow of any country 
may be known and recognized in any 
part of the habitual globe as a brother. 
The language used in describing and 
explaining the use, meaning and manner 



of performing the signs, grips, etc., may 
be in the tongue of the peoples in which 
the lodges are working. — 6'. G. L. 7532. 

689. The A. T. P. W. and all other 
passwords are to be spoken and written 
in English, and are not to be translated 
in any other language. — 1899, S. G. L. 24. 



(&) A. T. P. W. 



690. The A. T. P. W. is primarily 
designed for the use of brethren who 
are traveling beyond the limits of the 
jurisdiction to which they belong, but 
may also be used in the jurisdiction to 
which brothers belong who have re- 
ceived it in good faith for said primary 
purpose and in order that each brother 
may be properly instructed in it and 
visiting brethren from other jurisdic- 



694. Grand Patriarchs and Grand 
Representatives can only communicate 
the A. T. P. W. in the discharge of their 
official duties and to persons specified 
in the laws to receive the same. — ^5. G. 
L. 1251. 

695. The two highest elective officers 
of a lodge and the C. Patriarch and S. 
W. of an encampment are to be pri- 



Of. 



Bttcampment, IRo, 

state of 

.day of 190 



To the Chief Patriarch of any Encampment of the I. O. O. P : 

The bearer, Patriarch , holding a legal card 

from this , dated this day of 

190.., is entitled to the A. T. P. W. for the current year, which please communicate to him after due 
examination, whereupon you will retain or destroy this letter. 




C. P. 

Attest: Scribe. 



tions be properly examined. The Grand 
Master and Grand Patriarch and their 
regular deputies should be in possession 
of it. — S. G. L. 4413. 

691. The A. T. P. W. was adopted 
for the protection of the Order, and 
is one of the tests by which traveling 
brothers are tried. — S. G. L. Digest 
1847, 34- 

692. The A. T. P. W. is selected by 
the Grand Sire, is changed annually, 
and goes into use on the first day of 
January in each year. — S. G. L. Digest, 
1847, 34. 

693. It shall be the duty of the Grand 
Secretary of the S. G. L. to communi- 
cate the A. T. P. W. cipher on or 
before the first day of December of 
each year to all Grand Scribes.— 1902, 
5*. G. L. 931. 



vately put in possession of the A. T. 
P. W. at the time of their installation 
that they may be qualified either to give 
or receive it.— S. G. L. By-laws. 

3 696. If a brother applying for a final 
or visiting card be absent from the 
location of his encampment so that he 
cannot obtain the A. T. P. W. with 
his card in person, it shall be the duty 
of the proper officers upon the granting 
of such card to transmit the same to the 
brother and also send therewith a letter. 
—S. G. L. 1029. 

697. The above is the form of letter 
to be used authorizing communication 
of the A. T. P. W. 

698. If a Patriarch visit an encamp- 
ment on an official certificate, but not 
have the semi-annual or A. T. P. W., the 
Chief Patriarch would have the right to 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



85 



admit him and give him the pass-words. 
The instructions on back of latest Offi- 
cial Certificate provide that " The holder 
shall prove identity and good standing 
in the manner prescribed by the laws 
of the Order, and upon such proof the 
presiding officer of the encampment is 
authorized to communicate the A. T. 
P. W., the check pass-word, or both, 
as the case may be," — 1904, Pa, 259. 

pgg. The A. T. P. W. of which a Pa- 
triarch is required to prove himself in 
possession when he offers to visit a 
subordinate on a visiting card or un- 
expired withdrawal card, or is an appli- 
cant for membership therein by deposit 
of a proper card, is the A. T. P. W. of 
the year in which the card was issued 
and bears date. — S. G. L. 3876, 4240, 
1 1898. 

700. The Chief Patriarch when asked 
to give the holder of a Visiting Card 



or Official Certificate, still in date for 
visiting purposes, but issued during the 
preceding calendar year, the A. T. P. 
W., should give the A. T. P. W. current 
at the time of presentation, provided 
the card covers a period which extends 
to a later date. — 1901, S. G. L. 28, 404, 
416. 

701. If a member is in arrears for 
dues and pays part or all of such ar- 
rearages and nothing in advance, he 
can demand as a receipt the Official 
Certificate, but cannot demand the A. T. 
P. W.— 5. G. L. 15175- 

702. The A. T. P. W. must not be 
given to Patriarchs who only pay their 
dues to date. — 5^. G. L. 15165; 1901, 
S. G. L. 28. 

703. An insane Patriarch is not en- 
titled to the A. T. P. W.— 5. G. L. 9853. 



{c) Semi-annual or T. P. W. 



704. A check password is determined 
upon by the Grand Patriarch of each 
jurisdiction, and he communicates it to 
the D. D. Grand Patriarchs, who, in 
turn, communicate it to the C. P. and 
S. W. — Ritualistic Law. 

705. Grand Encampments have the op- 
tion to change the password quarterly 
instead of semi-annually when, in their 
opinion, it shall be for the interest of 
the Order in their respective jurisdic- 
tions.— 5. G. L. 14683, 1518. 

706. The officers of encampments 
shall not be installed nor furnished with 
the semi-annual password unless the 
reports, returns and moneys due from 
such encampments to the Grand En- 
campment be actually made and placed 
in the hands of the proper officer or be 
actually in transit to the proper destina- 
tion. — S. G. L. 2643. 

707. A member of a subordinate en- 
campment who is in arrears for weekly 
or funeral dues more than thirteen 
weeks is not entitled to the term pass- 
word or to vote in the encampment, but 
is entitled to visit his own encampment 
until dropped, suspended or expelled. 
The above phrase " who is in arrears " 
for weekly or funeral dues for " more 
than thirteen weeks " means " who owes 
more than thirteen weeks' weekly or 
funeral dues." Hence a brother who 
had paid his dues to the close 



of the last meeting night in De- 
cember was more than thirteen weeks 
in arrears after the first meeting night 
of April following, if he had made no 
further payment. — S. G. L. 7909, 7505. 

708. A Chief Patriarch shall not com- 
municate the check password to any 
Patriarch holding membership in a 
lodge in another jurisdiction, unless 
the Patriarch has a certificate showing 
his dues to be paid in his lodge 
within twelve months. — 1899, S. G. L. 
389. 

709. But one semi-annual password 
can be in force at the same time. A 
brother with a card is entitled to re- 
ceive the password in force at the time 
such card in date is presented. — 1901, 
S. G. L. 28. 

710. A Patriarch who has only re- 
ceived the Patriarchal or the Patriarchal 
and Golden Rule Degrees, being en- 
titled to admission whenever the en- 
campment is opened in the degree he 
has attained, is certainly entitled to 
the semi-annual password to enable him 
to work his way in. — 5^. G. L. 2145, 
4467. 

711. If a Patriarch pays his dues on 
the last meeting night for the quarter, 
he can, on the evening of payment, ask 
for and receive the term P. W. — S. G. 
L. 15170. 



86 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



PAST CHIEF PATRIARCHS. 

[See Degrees, and Honors of Office] 



712. The following is the form for a 
Past Qiief Patriarch's certificate, which 
is to be made out in duplicate, one copy 
to be delivered to the Past Chief Pa- 
triarch and the other to be immediately 
forwarded to the Grand Scribe. 



out his time as such as provided by the 
laws of the Order.— 5". G. L. 12788. 

717. Past High Priests are not al- 
lowed to wear P. C. P. collars in en- 
campments. — S. G. L. 15170. 



past Cbiet lpatriarcb'6 Certificate. 



To the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. P. : 



.Encampment, No. 



This is to Certify That Brother Past Chief Patriarch 

Write first name in full 

is a member in good -standing in this Encampment ; that he has been duly elected to and has served in 
the office of Chief Patriarch for one elective term next ensuing his election, discharging the duties of the 
office in a satisfactory* manner, and that he is entitled to membership in the Grand Encampment of 
Pennsylvania ; we, therefore, respectfully request that he may be acknowledged accordingly. 



Witness our hands and the seal of the Encampment at. 



.in the State of Pennsylvania, this day 



of. 



.A. D., 190 



I SEAL I 



.. C.P 

.Scribe. 



713. The rights guaranteed to Past 
Officers by ancient usage and the de- 
cisions of the S. G. L. are to seats in 
Grand Encampments, to vote for Grand 
Officers and eligibility to office therein. 
Grand Bodies may so regulate their 
constitutions as to establish a system 
by which their subordinates may be 
represented on a ratio of population, 
but they cannot deprive Past Officers 
of the privileges acquired by service. — 
5. G. L. 1084, 7762. 

714. Rank granted by authority in one 
state is in like manner recognized in all 
other states.— 5. G. L. 8041. 

715. Patriarchs who are or may be- 
come members of a Grand Encampment 
in one state or jurisdiction are quali- 
fied for membership in a Grand En- 
campment of any other state or juris- 
diction.— 5". G. L. 8041. 

716. No Grand Encampment has the 
power to declare a Past High Priest a 
Past Chief Patriarch unless he has also 
been duly elected a Chief Patriarch by 
his subordinate encampment and served 



718. The Grand Scribe is authorized 
to prepare a blank General Certificate 
upon which the Scribes of the various 
encampments in this jurisdiction shall, 
immediately upon its receipt, enter the 
names of all the Past Chief Patri- 
archs in good standing and forward 
the same to the Grand Scribe, which 
General Certificate shall have the same 
force and effect as the regular Past 
Chief Patriarch's Certificate.— 1875, Pa. 
82. 

719. The S. G. L. permits Grand En- 
campments to be organized either of P. C. 
Ps. and P. H. Ps. or of P. C Ps. alone. 
Each Grand Encampment is at liberty to 
frame its constitution in this particular 
to suit itself. The grade of P. H. P. 
therefore depends entirely on the local 
law. If by this law they are admitted to 
membership in the Grand Encampment, 
it would be best to make them eligible 
to any office, including that of Grand 
Patriarch.— 5. G. L. 958, 11 14, 1770. 

720. The constitution of the Grand 
Encampment of Pennsylvania requires 
that to entitle a Patriarch to member- 
ship he shall produce a certificate from 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



87 



the encampment of which he is a mem- 
ber, certifying that he has been duly 
elected to and has served in the office 
of Chief Patriarch for one elective term, 
and the Grand Encampment has a right 
to refuse to admit a Patriarch to mem- 
bership until he has complied with the 



requirement of its constitution. — S. G. L. 
1771. 

721. The following is the form of 
transfer certificate for Past Chief 
Patriarchs changing their membership 
from one encampment to another. 



tlransfet Certificate ♦ 



- ^ _.- Encampment, No. 

To the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. F. : 

This is to Certify, That Past Chief Patriarch 

has deposited his card in this Encampment, and that prior to his admission to membership this Encamp- 
ment received full evidence that he had served one elective term in the office of Chief Patriarch in 

Encampment, No 

of 

We therefore respectfully request that he may be acknowledged accordingly. 



I SEAL I 



Witness our hands and the seal of the Encampment at 

in the State of Pennsylvania, this day of A. D. 19 

C.P. 



.Scribe. 



PATRIARCHS MILITANT. 

[See Installation] 



722. The organization of Patriarchs 
Militant is the only authorized military 
branch of our Order. — S. G. L. 11725. 

723. The degree of Patriarchs Mili- 
tant should be treated for just what it 
is — a side degree only valuable as an 
adjunct and help to the great body of 
the Order, the subordinate membership. 
—5. G. L. 10734. 

724. The degree of Patriarchs Mili- 
tant shall be open to Patriarchs of the 
Royal Purple Degree. The condition 
necessary for receiving or retaining 
membership is good standing in a reg- 
ular encampment of the Order as well 
as in the Canton, except that when an 
encampment surrenders its charter, a 
member thereof who is a chevalier of 
a canton in good standing, and who 
desires to retain his membership 
therein, must forthwith obtain a card 
from the officers of the Grand Encamp- 
ment of the jurisdiction wherein the 
defunct encampment was located, and 
deposit the same in, and becorne a mem- 
ber of an encampment within one 



year from the date of the said card so 
obtained.— 5". G. L. Pat. Mil Code. 

725. When a member of a canton of 
Patriarchs Militant takes a withdrawal 
card from the encampment of which 
he may be a member his membership 
in his canton shall not be affected 
thereby for six months from the date of 
his said withdrawal card. He shall be 
considered in good standing in his 
canton if he deposits his withdrawal 
card in an encampment and becomes a 
member thereof at any time within 
six months from the date of said with- 
drawal card. — vS. G. L. 11386. 

726. The Scribe or Recording Scribe 
of each subordinate encampment shall 
keep a roll-book, to be known as the 
roster of " Canton Patriarchs," and he 
shall record therein the names of all 
Patriarchs of such encampment who 
have received the honors of the Militant 
Degree, and shall also record therein the 
termination of any Patriarch's member- 
ship in said degree, upon receipt of 
information to that effect from the clerk 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



of the canton, over its seal; and it shall 
also be the duty of such Scribe or 
Recording Scribe to notify the canton 
of which a member of the encampment 
is a member, upon the termination of 
his membership in the encampment over 
the seal of the same. — S. G. L. ii 733- 

727. If suspension in the lodge is 
such as to work suspension in the en- 
campment, then suspension will of 
necessity follow in the canton, and office 
held at the time by the suspended mem- 
ber will be vacated ; and if the sus- 
pended member should be an officer in 
command of troops, possessing a staff, 
the staff will pass out of commission 
unless retained by order of the Com- 
mander P. M.— 6". G. L. 1 1482, 1 1488, 
14244. 

728. It is the duty of the Scribe of 
the encampment to which a chevalier 
belongs to officially notify his canton 
of the termination or suspension of his 
membership in the encampment. — 1901, 
S. G. L. 38; 1906, 5. G. L. 721. 

729. The Chief Patriarchs and Scribes, 
over the seals of encampments, are re- 
quired to indorse the applications of 
petitioners for warrants to establish 
cantons, certifying as to the good stand- 
ing of applicants in the encampments 
of which they are Chief Patriarchs and 
Scribes, respectively. — 5". G. L. Pat. 
Mil. Code. 

730. When a chevalier, as such,_ visits 
a subordinate he must be clothed in full 
uniform, either the full dress or the 
fatigue, but he cannot occupy any chair 
or do the work of any officer in a sub- 
ordinate lodge or encampment while 
dressed in P. M. uniform. — S. G. L. 
Pat. Mil. Code. 

731. The words "as such" apply 
directly to the subordinate member as 
a chevalier and when desiring to be so 



recognized, then instruction is given 
how to appear, which would equally 
apply whether he be attending his 
own subordinate lodge or encamp- 
ment or visiting another. — 1907, Gr. 
Sires Dec. 

732. A Grand Patriarch or a D. D. 
G. P. officiating as the installing officer 
in a subordinate encampment may in- 
vite a canton or a delegation of cheva- 
liers to act as escort to him or assist 
him in the installation, and they may 
wear the Patriarchs Militant uniform; 
provided, that the installing officer shall 
also wear the regalia or jewel of his 
office. — 6^. G. L. 15505. 

7:^Z- When a chevalier, as such, visits 
a subordinate, he must be clothed in full 
uniform; either the "full dress" or 
"undress" will answer the law. A 
part will not. The law says he can 
wear the uniform, not a part of it. As 
well (before the abolition of the apron) 
might a brother have entered a lodge 
with a collar and no apron, or with an 
apron and no collar, but it will not be 
pretended for a moment that this could 
have been done. The interests of the 
Order will be best subserved by keeping 
these two regalias entirely distinct. — 
5". G. L. 1 1095- 

734. A chevalier visiting, as such, a 
lodge, encampment or Rebekah Lodge, 
must be in full uniform, either fatigue 
or full dress, and need not wear regalia 
therewith; but while so clothed he 
cannot occupy any chair or do the work 
of any officer of the body visited. — 
1900, S. G. L. 512. 

735. A chevalier in uniform, other- 
wise qualified, cannot assume or take 
any of the chairs of office in a subor- 
dinate lodge without first changing his 
uniform (denominated as regalia by 
the S. G. L.) for the stipulated regalia 
of the office taken or assumed. — S. G. 
L. 1 1489. 



PER CAPITA TAX. 

[See Grand Scribe] 



y2>^. An encampment is liable for per 
capita tax at the end of the term in 
which it was instituted. — 1902, Pa. 250. 

'J2>7- An encampment pays per capita 
tax on non-beneficial members unless 
they are such as now are designated 



"non-contributing members," as appli- 
cable to members sixty years of age 
who have been contributing members 
for twenty-five consecutive years and 
who became such through being in 
arrears for non-payment of dues. — 1905, 
Pa. 22, 95. 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 89 

PERMISSION GRANTED. 

[See Regalia in Public, Liquors, and Anniversary] 

738. When permission is granted by or the name of the Order used; the 
the Grand Patriarch or the Grand En- prohibition against the use of intoxi- 
campment to subordinate encampments eating beverages, and their being offered 
to use the name of the Order or appear to members and guests on such occa- 
in regalia on any anniversary, pubHc sions, would apply and be enforceable 
holiday or other occasion in which re- without a direct promise. — 1905, S. G. 
galia is authorized by law to be worn L. 37. 

PROPOSITION FOR MEMBERSHIP. 

[See Application for Membership, Investigating Committee, Transfer of Membership, and Territorial 

Jurisdiction] 

739. An encampment should have a A member of the committee may au- 
Proposition Book, in which the names thorize one of his colleagues to sign 
of candidates should be entered ; and the report in his behalf. The committee 
the Investigation Committee should cannot report upon the night of its 
sign the report in the Proposition Book. appointment. — Pa. Digest, 712. 

POSTAL CARDS. 

740. The use of postal cards in the without exception, as a practice liable 
correspondence of encampments with to abuse, and at variance with the 
their members or otherwise is strictly intentions of the Order. — 1875, -P^- 
prohibited by this Grand Encampment, 92. 

PROCEEDINGS. 

741. The reception by an encampment Patriarchs that have not heretofore ap- 
of the printed Journal of the Sovereign peared in the Journal of Proceedings 
Grand Lodge is official notice of all of this Grand Encampment shall be pub- 
acts performed by that body without lished in the Annual Journals, two to 
any special notice from this Grand appear each year, one to be the Junior 
Encampment. — 1875, Pa. 65. Past Grand Patriarch, and the other to 

be selected according to seniority of 

742. The portraits of all Past Grand service. — 1900, Pa. 58; 1903, Pa. 37. 

PROCESSIONS. 

743. The law of 1864 prohibiting anni- 744. The encampment branch has 
versaries, etc., without the consent of the usually been considered as more exalted 
Grand Patriarch, is not intended to than the subordinate, and precedence 
prohibit encampments from joining in is generally given to the Patriarchal 
a public procession in regalia in con- Degree. This, however, may be con- 
nection with other organizations when trolled by circumstances, as, for exam- 
invited to do so by the civil authorities, pie, when the procession is organized 
and permission may be obtained from under and in behalf of a single subor- 
the respective jurisdictions under such dinate lodge. In this case precedence 
regulations as they may prescribe. — is usually given to the body under and 
5. G. L. 3739. in whose behalf the procession is or- 
ganized.— 5'. G. L. 1932, 931 1. 

PROTEST. 

745. The right of any member of the right of a member of the Grand En- 
Grand Encampment to respectfully pro- campment to make a protest is clearly 
test is unquestioned. The right to pro- established. As to the method of pro- 
test, in both the subordinate lodge and cedure in case of a protest, that would 
in the Sovereign Grand Lodge being depend upon the nature of the protest 
distinctly recognized, by inference the itself. — 1904, Pa. 251. 



90 PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. 

[See Regalia in Public] 

PUBLIC INSTALLATION. 

[See Permission Granted] 

746. Grand Encampments are author- used in public by making certain speci- 
ized to confer upon subordinate encamp- fied modifications. There is no law 
ments the right to install their officers abrogating or modifying this form of 
in public ; provided, the ceremony be public installation. It is still in force, 
conducted by an officer of such Grand and " when the officers of an encamp- 
Body, a D. D. Grand Patriarch or ment are installed in public it should 
P. C. P. duly authorized by the Grand be done according to the regulations 
Patriarch ; provided, they use the form for instituting subordinate encampments 
prescribed by the S. G. L. — S. G. L. and installing the officers thereof." — 
14480. S. G. L. 10190. 

747, The regulations for the institu- 748. The encampment installation cer- 
tion of subordinate encampments and emony which was adopted in 1889 is 
the installation of the officers thereof intended for both public and private in- 
published by the S. G. L. furnish a form stallations. The footnotes and instruc- 
of public installation by providing that tions show the changes to be made for 
the ceremonies used in private may be public installation. — S. G. L. 11904, 

QUESTION BOOK. 

[See Supplies] 

749. The Grand Officers were directed a Question Book. By direction of the 
to enquire into the legality of issuing Grand Encampment the Question Book 
a Question Book, and if there be no must be used in the examination of can- 
objections on the part of the Sovereign didates for admission to the Patriarchal 
Grand Lodge, that they prepare and issue branch. — 1892, Pa. 964, 1901, Pa. 227. 

READMISSION. 

[See Application for Membership, Proposition for Membership, Investigating Committee, and Ballot] 

750. It is not competent for a subor- clearly provide the way in which a 
dinate encampment to insert in its By- person may regain membership upon 
laws provision that a member who may card, and an encampment granting final 
draw a final card shall have the privi- card has no more power to depart from 
lege of depositing the same in said en- that way when the person holding that 
campment within a specified time, by card seeks to reunite with said encamp- 
a simple vote of the encampment instead ment than upon the application of a 
of a ballot vote, as in the case of initi- stranger. — S. G. L. 3182. 

ating members. The laws of the Order 

RECESS. 

[See Meetings] 

751. Even when a subordinate en- triarch enters during a recess without 
campment is " at ease," officers must form, upon call to order he must retire 
occupy their chairs and Patriarchs must and work his way in in form. — 1899, 
enter and retire in form. If a Pa- 6^. G. L. ZZ- 

RECONSIDERATION. 

752. Any action taken by a Grand at the subsequent session. — 1901, S. G. 
Body at one session can be reconsidered L. 274. 



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RECORDS OF SUBORDINATES. 

[See Meetings] 



753. Many encampments have very 
incomplete records, and in numerous 
instances some of the prescribed books 
are not in use. Every encampment 
should be in possession of a Minute 
Book, Cash Book, Ledger, Constitution 
Book for signatures, Question Book for 
candidates, Roll Book, Proposition Book, 



Book of Semi-Annual Abstract, and a 
Register of Members, and all proper 
entries should be made. Without these 
books the business of an encampment 
cannot be properly conducted, and the 
prosperity of each largely depends upon a 
systematic effort of the officers in the per- 
formance of their duties. — 1905, Pa. 23. 



REGALIA. 

(a) Of Grand Encampment. 

(6) Of Subordinate Encampment. 

{c) In Public. 

[See Permission Granted, Meetings, and Patriarchs Militant] 



(a) Of Grand Encampment. 



754. All State, District . and Terri- 
torial Grand Lodges and Grand En- 
campments shall enforce upon their sub- 
ordinates a strict adherence to the work 
of the Order according to the forms 
furnished by the S. G. L., and shall be 
held responsible for any irregularities 
that they may allow under their juris- 
dictions. They shall neither adopt nor 
use, nor suffer to be adopted or used, 
in their jurisdictions any other charges, 
lectures, degrees, ceremonies, forms of 
installation or regalia than those pre- 
scribed by the S. G. L. — S. G. L. By- 
laws. 

755. The regalia for Past Grand Pa- 
triarchs is a royal purple collar of 
velvet, not to exceed five inches in 
width, trimmed with yellow metal lace 
fringe, and tassels, with crossed crooks 
and a dove with olive branch on the 
face of the collar and yellow lace and 
fringe around two-thirds of the length 
of the neck of the collar. — S. G. L. 
4399- 

756. Past High Priests who are P. Gs. 
and members of a Grand Encampment 
may wear the combined regalia now 



authorized to be worn by Past Chief 
Patriarchs. — S. G. L. 6197. 

757. At sessions of Grand Bodies, 
in lieu of any regalia heretofore de- 
scribed, a ribbon may be worn of the 
color of the highest degree the member 
has attained, having attached thereto any 
jewel which he is entitled or required 
to wear as provided. — 6^. G. L. 11 394. 

758. By the fair meaning of the law 
it is left optional with the members to 
append the jewel or not; with or with- 
out the jewel the ribbon will be suffi- 
cient. It is the ribbon, and not the 
jewel, which is the substitute for the 
regalia. The reference to a jewel was 
intended to apply solely to Grand Offi- 
cers who, when they wear a ribbon, 
must attach the jewel of office. — S. G. 
L. 11718. 

759. A brother when he visits his own 
or any other Grand or subordinate en- 
campment may wear the encampment 
regalia and jewel of the highest degree 
he has taken. It is not the duty of 
members to wear such regalia and jewel, 
but they may do so at their option, — 
S. G. L. 7735, 8993, 9095. 



{h) Of Subordinate Encampment. 



760. The encampment regalia shall be 
as follows : Patriarchal Degree, a plain 
black collar; Golden Rule Degree, a 
black collar trimmed with yellow ; Royal 
Purple Degree, a purple collar trimmed 
with yellow lace or fringe; Past Chief 
Patriarch, same as Royal Purple De- 
gree, with crossed crooks on right and 



the letters "P. C. P." on left side of 
collar. All collars not to exceed four 
inches in width.— 5". G. L. 8466, 14880, 
5". G. L. By-laws. 

761. The regalia for a Past Grand who 
is also a Past Chief Patriarch rnay, in 
lieu of any other regalia to which he 



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may be entitled, be a scarlet collar 
trimmed with white, the collar not to 
be more than five and a-half inches 
wide, with a roll of purple two inches 
wide trimmed with yellow, the collar 
to be united in front with three links. 
The above-described ragalia may be 
worn by a brother who has passed the 
chairs in a lodge and in an encampment, 
in any Grand or subordinate lodge or 
any Grand or subordinate encampment. 
The collar may be of scarlet velvet with 
white metal trimmings, and the roll of 
purple velvet with yellow metal trim- 
mings. — 6'. G. L. 5518. 

762. It is not lawful for the Junior 
Warden to accept the password from a 
Patriarch, who is not in regalia, before 
the encampment is declared open. One 
of the rules of the Order is, when the 
Chief Patriarch takes his chair the 
officers and members shall clothe them- 
selves with appropriate regalias, take 
their respective seats and when called 
to order there shall be general silence. 
This, however, does not apply to the 
examination of a Patriarch in the ante- 
room. — 1903, Pa. 171. 

y6z. Encampments are not permitted 
to discard the prescribed regalia and 
wear the jewels in place of it. — 1901, 
5. G. L. 37' 

764. A Past Chief Patriarch has the 
right to wear the regalia of such ofifice^ 
although no longer a member of a Grand 
Encampment. — 1899, S. G. L. 34. 



765. A brother is entitled to wear 
regalia indicative of his highest rank 
in the Order, whether he be attending 
lodge or encampment, and to be desig- 
nated in the journals thereof in like 
manner. — S. G. L. 15975. 

766. A member is entitled to and 
should wear the regalia designating the 
highest rank to which he has attained. 
1902, 6'. G. L. 537. 

767. The above has no reference, how- 
ever, to the regalia worn by the Chief 
Patriarch or other officers of the en- 
campment, which regalia should not be 
worn except when performing some 
duty of the office. — 1905, S. G. L. 44. 

768. An encampment member can 
wear his encampment regalia when sit- 
ting in his lodge, unless he is a lodge 
officer, in which case he must wear the 
regalia of his office. — S. G. L. 13783. 

769. A member of a subordinate lodge 
who has been suspended by his en- 
campment for non-payment of dues or 
for any cause, or who has withdrawn 
from his encampment or lost his mem- 
bership therein in any other way, has 
no right to wear the encampment regalia 
in his subordinate lodge or in any other 
Odd Fellow organization under or 
created by the authority of the S. G. L. 
A Past Grand thus situated has not the 
right to wear the combined regalia of 
the Order nor any trimmings of yellow 
metal or other yellow material in any 
lodge of any kind. — S. G. L. iiioi. 



(c) In Public. 



770. Grand Bodies are requested to 
strictly prohibit all processions, etc., at 
which the regalia, emblems, etc., of the 
Order shall be used, unless permission 
be granted after due consideration in 
open Grand Encampment or in its re- 
cess be granted by dispensation of the 
Grand Patriarch. All publications made 
in any public newspaper, calling on th6 
Order to appear in regalia on any occa- 
sion not authorized by the proper Grand 
Encampment, is incorrect and censur- 
able; and the unauthorized use of the 
name of the Order by anyone is erron- 
eous and should be strictly forbidden. 
—5. G. L. 392. 



771. An encampment may obtain per- 
mission to wear its regalia at a proper 
public occasion ; but the term " regalia " 
does not include the various robes and 
paraphernalia incident to the confer- 
ring of the several degrees. — 1902, Pa. 
249. 

772. If a subordinate lodge has per- 
mission to march in public procession 
in regalia, encampment members of such 
lodge have the right to wear their en- 
campment regalia in such lodge pro- 
cession. — 5. G. L. 1 1 103. 



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REINSTATEMENT. 

[See Application for Membership, Ballot, Investigating Committee, Admission Fee, and Suspension for 

Non-Payment of Dues] 

778. It is not necessary for a rein- 
stated member to sign the constitution 
again.— 1904, Pa. 258. 



y7Z- The question of reinstatement of 
members who have been suspended for 
non-payment of dues is one that is of 
great importance, and as each jurisdic- 
tion is better informed of the wants 
and demands of its members in regard 
to the subject, and greater satisfaction 
can be attained through having this 
matter placed under the control of the 
several local Grand Lodges and Grand 
Encampments ; therefore, the question 
of the reinstatement of members who 
have been suspended for the non-pay- 
ment of dues has been relegated to, and 
placed under the control of, the several 
Grand Lodges and Grand Encamp- 
ments. All laws in conflict herewith 
are repealed. — 1902, S. G. L. 895. 

774. All the laws as to reinstatement 
of members suspended for non-payment 
of dues are modified by the action of 
the S. G. L. placing the control of the 
matter in the various Grand Bodies. — 
1902, 5. G. L. 895- 

775. A Patriarch who has been sus- 
pended for non-payment of dues in an 
encampment which has since his suspen- 
sion surrendered its charter may be 
admitted to membership in an encamp- 
ment upon such terms and upon such 
evidence as the Grand Encampment may 
prescribe, but in no case shall the amount 
charged exceed one year's dues. — 5*. G. 
L. 10151, 3350, 10189. 

776. A member of an encampment 
who is suspended in his lodge for a 
definite period, on his restoration to 
membership in his lodge is ipso facto 
reinstated in his encampment; provided, 
he continues to pay his dues to the 
encampment during the period of his 
suspension. — S. G. L. 8370. 

777. It is not necessary for a rein- 
stated member to be present on the 
evening of reinstatement. — 1904, Pa. 
258. 



779. The Constitution for Subordinate 
Encampments does not mention any 
period of time that must elapse before 
a Patriarch suspended for non-payment 
of dues can make application for rein- 
statement. — 1903, Pa. 25. 

780. In a ballot taken upon an appli- 
cation for reinstatement the result 
showed 2 black and 2 white balls in the 
box. The Chief Patriarch declared no 
election. The decision of the Chief Pa- 
triarch was correct as the law says that 
if a majority of the votes be favorable 
he shall be restored to membership. 
There not being a majority vote favor- 
able, there was no election. — 1883, Pa. 
438. 

781. An encampment through a mis- 
take recognized a member suspended 
for non-payment of dues, as a delin- 
quent member, and received from him 
twenty dollars, the amount of his ar- 
rearages, and for two years thereafter 
continued to receive his dues and rec- 
ognize him as a member in good stand- 
ing. Held that although the action was 
illegal, yet as the encampment as well 
as the brother appeared to have acted 
in good faith, it should not be consid- 
ered void, and in order that no injustice 
should result to the brother through 
this unintentional mistake or error of 
the encampment, that the Patriarch 
should be regarded as having been reg- 
ularly reinstated to membership at the 
time the encampment received from 
him the twenty dollars for his arrears 
of dues, as if it had been done in proper 
and legal form, and directed that this 
decision should be entered upon the 
minutes of the encampment as evidence 
of the fact.— 1883, Pa. 350. 



RELIEF COMMITTEE. 

[See Insanity, Benefits, and Notice] 



782. As to who comprise the Relief 
Committee of an encampment is left to 
the subordinate encampment, whoever 
it may select, but the Grand Encamp- 
ment advises that the Chief Patriarch 



and Senior Warden be selected to serve 
on said committee. — 1903, Pa. 25. 

783. A member of the Relief Com- 
mittee being aware of a member's sick- 



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ness at the time of its occurrence con- 
stitutes a legal notice of the same. — 
Pa. Dig. 189. 

784. An encampment has the right to 
receive a minority report of the Relief 
Committee and draw orders for the sick 
when a majority of the Relief Commit- 
tee is absent. — 1874, Pa. 7. 

785. The record of an encampment 
showed that a Patriarch was reported 
" unwell and entitled to benefits " and 
two weeks' benefits were paid. After- 
wards the C. P., at various times, re- 
ported him as " entitled to benefits or 
aid or sympathy," but no benefits were 



given him, and the encampment, by 
resolution, refused him benefits at the 
time of the last of such reports. Held, 
that the record showed him entitled. 
—6'. G. L. 8644. 

786. An encampment may appoint a 
Patriarch to visit the sick and perform 
duty on the Relief Committee on ac- 
count of one of said committee being 
sick. It has not only the right to do 
this but it is its duty so to do, such 
appointments, however, remaining in 
force only during the disability of said 
member of the committee whose duties 
said appointee is to perform. — 1874, 
Pa. 7. 



REPORTS. 

[See Grand Scribe] 



787. All term reports, which may be 
made to Grand Bodies by their subor- 
dinates, shall contain in their own hand- 
writing the signatures of the elective 
officers thereof, and shall be carefully 
preserved by the Grand Scribes. — S. G. 
L. 3478. 

788. Grand Bodies subordinate to the 
S. G. L. are required to make such laws 
and regulations as may enable them to 
collect from their subordinates the full 
returns required by the S. G. L., and as 
may be necessary to insure the annual 
return to the office of the Grand Sec- 
retary thereof on or before the first 
day of April in every year. — S. G. L. 
5889. 

789. The officers of subordinate en- 
campments shall not be installed nor 
furnished with the semi-annual pass- 
words unless the reports, returns and 
moneys due from such encampments to 
the respective superior jurisdictions be 
actually made and placed in the hands 
of the proper officer or be actually in 
transit to the proper destination. — S. G. 
L. 2643. 

790. The report is to be made of the 
proceedings of the term then expiring 
and must be signed by the officers in 
the capacity they then fill. In a sepa- 
rate schedule a return is made of the 
officers-elect. These latter officers can- 
not be installed until such return has 
been dispatched and the per capita tax 
paid.— 5. G. L. 3210. 



791. The former method of requiring 
a full statistical and financial report for 
each term during the year involved con- 
siderable unnecessary labor and pos- 
sessed no adequate advantages. The 
reports of this Grand Body to the Sov- 
ereign Grand Lodge are made annually 
to cover one year ending in September, 
and it would seem but natural and more 
convenient to have the reports from the 
subordinate bodies to cover the same 
period. Therefore, the semi-annual re- 
ports required from the subordinate en- 
campments in the month of March will 
be of condensed form, giving the net 
membership at the close of the term and 
the list of the elective officers for the 
ensuing term ; and each encampment is 
required to make an annual report in 
the month of September giving the full 
statistical and financial report for the 
year ending with the September term, to- 
gether with the names of all meml3ers 
suspended or expelled during the year, 
the list of Past Chief Patriarchs on the 
roll at the last meeting_ night in the 
term and the list of elective officers for 
the ensuing term. — 1902, Pa. 37. 

792. Scribes of encampments must in- 
clude in their term reports the names 
of those that have received the Patri- 
archal Degree as members of the en- 
campment. They sign the constitution 
and their dues begin to run from that 
date, and they can be suspended if they 
go no further for non-payment of dues. 
A strict compliance with this rule is 
necessary to make the reports harmonize 
with each other.— 1883, Pa. 350. 



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REPRESENTATIVE. 

[See Grand Encampment] 

793. Grand Bodies have the right to 795- A Grand Encampment has no 
establish a system of representation, right to recognize as a representative a 
and are the proper source whence such Patriarch who is not a member of an 
system should emanate.— 5". G. L. IQIQ- encampment he represents.— 5^. G. L. 

6350. 

794. The number of representatives 

from an encampment to a Grand En- 796. The following is the forni ot 

campment may be restricted by con- Representative's Credential which is to 

stitutional provision, but all members be made in duplicate, one copy to be 

of the Grand Body have the right to delivered to the representative elect and 

vote in the election of officers in such the other copy to be immediately for- 

form as the local law provides. — 1905, warded to the Grand Scribe. 
5. G. L. 46. 

IRepresentative's Certittcate. 



To the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. F. : 
This is to Certify, That Brother Past Chief Patriarch. . 



Write first name in full 

is a member in good standing in Encampment, No 

that he has been duly elected Representative to the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, to serve during 
the term commencing on the third Tuesday in October, 

We, therefore, respectfully request that he may be acknowledged accordingly. 



I SEAL I 



Witness our hands and the seal of the Encampment at 

in the State of Pennsylvania, this day of A. D. 190 

C. P. 

Scribe. 



RESIDENCE. 

[See Territorial Jurisdiction, Application for Membership, and Proposition for Membership] 

797. A Third Degree member of a for his employer. Held that the brother 
subordinate lodge in another jurisdic- must be admitted to the Patriarchal 
tion, residing in Pennsylvania, is eligi- Degree in the encampment in which he 
ble to membership in an encampment, in was elected, and thereafter may have 
this jurisdiction. — 1902, Pa. 250. the Golden Rule and Royal Purple De- 
grees conferred in New Jersey by re- 

798. A brother was elected to become quest from the encampment to which 
a member of an encampment in Pennsyl- he belongs over the signatures of the 
vania, but before he could be admitted Chief Patriarch and the Scribe and 
to _ the Patriarchal Degree he was under the seal of the encampment. — 
obliged to go to New Jersey to work 1903, Pa. 23. 

RESIGNATION. 

799- A Patriarch cannot legally resign he is in good standing in his lodge at 

from an encampment when he is not in the time of such resignation." This 

good standing. "A written resignation applies to the encampment as well as 

severs the connection of a brother finally to the subordinate branch of the Order, 

and entirely with the Order. Provided, —1906, Pa. 168. 



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RESTORATION OF CHARTER. 

[See Charter] 



800. A Grand Body may allow an en- 
campment to be resuscitated upon the 
application of five of the former mem- 
bers of the encampment, and give the 
name, charter and effects of such de- 
funct subordinate to such applicant; 
provided, that the petitioners at the time 
of their application shall not be con- 
nected with any other subordinate en- 
campment. — S. G. L. 4145. 

801. The following is the form of 
petition for the restoration of a charter. 



been a member of said defunct encamp- 
ment; provided, however, that if the 
requisite number of original members 
be not found among the petitioners, it 
must be apparent that due diligence and 
effort have been made in good faith to 
procure the required number, or no 
surrendered funds, effects and property 
of the defunct encampment shall be 
returned with the charter; and in all 
cases the charter fee shall be required 
as in case of issuing a new charter. — 
S. G. L. 4886, 10252. 



To the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania : 

The Petition of the undersigned, former members of 

Encampment, No I. O. O. F., and who do hereby severally and jointly certify to that fact, respect- 
fully represents that it would be consistent with the advantage of the Order to re-establish said Encamp- 
ment, to be located at ., 

County of State of Pennsylvania, to be hailed as 

Encampment, No under your Jurisdiction. 

Wherefore, your petitioner! pray that the Charter may be restored in accordance with the laws of 
your Body. 



Dated at 
Signed : 



.this. 



.day of 19 



802. It is illegal for a Grand Encamp- 
ment to permit any members of a sus- 
pended or expelled encampment to t)e- 
come members as petitioners or other- 
wise, who were engaged in the illegal 
acts that caused the suspension or ex- 
pulsion.— 6". G. L. 13439. 

803. Grand Encampments may return 
surrendered charters, that may have re- 
mained unclaimed for not less than five 
years, upon the petition of the requisite 
number of qualified Patriarchs, although 
only one of the petitioners may have 



804. It is competent for Grand Bodies, 
upon the restoration of the charter to 
five or more members of a defunct en- 
campment, to demand and receive a 
charter fee as in the case of issuing a 
new charter. — 5*. G. L. 12228. 

805. Petitioners for the restoration of 
a Charter who are not present at the 
organization when the encampment is 
resuscitated are not restored to mem- 
bership. — S. G. L. 7036. 



RITUAL. 

[See Work, and Degrees] 



806. Each subordinate encampment is 
hereby allowed to procure not to exceed 
six rituals, for the use of said encamp- 



ment— 6'. G. L. 8533, 1 1487; 1899, S. G. 
L. 342. 



RULES OF ORDER. 



807. The rules of order by which a 
deliberate body is governed are its laws 
on the subject to which they apply and 



votes amending the By-laws of an en- 
campment, are taken like any other vote 
subject to the rules of order. — S.G.L. 416. 



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SALARY. 

[See Funds, and Appropriations] 



808. The matter of using the funds of 
a subordinate encampment, for the pur- 
pose of paying for the services of their 
officers, is one which properly belongs 
to the legislation of the respective State, 
District and Territorial Grand Bodies. 
—S. G. L. 2,117- 



809. An encampment cannot legally 
adopt a By-law to pay its elective offi- 
cers, say, twenty-five or fifty cents per 
night for every night they attend the en- 
campment meetings excepting the Scribe 
and Treasurer, to whom salaries are al- 
lowed by law to be paid. — 1903, Pa. 23. 



SALOON KEEPER— BARTENDER. 

[See Membership] 



810. " No saloon-keeper, bartender or 
professional gambler shall be eligible to 
membership in this order." 

" This does not affect present member- 
ship." 

" A saloon-keeper in the order at 
the time of the passage of the 
fifth amendment, and only a Scarlet 
Degree member, is eligible to mem- 
bership in the encampment, or any 
branch of the Order of which he is not 
a member." 

It will be noticed from the above — 
First: That if a member is already in 



the business, he not only can remain 
in the Order, but can advance in it. 
Second : That not only is no man who 
is in the business eligible to member- 
ship, but also no member can go into the 
business proscribed after he has joined 
the Order, Third : It has been decided 
by the Sovereign Grand Lodge that it 
is the duty of the presiding officer to 
prefer charges if same is not done by 
others ; and, if not so done, the encamp- 
ment runs the risk of losing its charter. 
—S. G. L. 14490, 14500, 14573, 14607, 
14943 ; 1904, Pa- 259- 



SEAL. 



811. Each Grand Encampment shall 
have a seal, an impression whereof in 
wax shall be sent to the Grand Secre- 
tary and be deposited in the archives of 
the S. G. L. — S. G. L. By-laws. 

812. It is legitimate and proper for 
the Grand Encampment to use a printed 
seal on official documents when it is not 
convenient to actually impress it. — S. G. 
L. 15176. 

813. It is legal to print the seal upon 
official documents of an encampment, 
provided that the printed seal is the 
adopted seal of the encampment. — 1900, 
5". G. L. 780, 882. 



814. Grand Bodies are hereby required 
to expel from their own membership, 
and subordinate encampments to expel 
from their bodies, any member thereof 
who shall attach to any chart, certifi- 
cate, diploma or other document any 
copy or impression of the seal of the 
S. G. L. or the seal of any Grand or 
subordinate encampment of which he 
has not the official use and custody. 
The above-named bodies shall inflict 
the same penalty upon any member 
knowingly publishing or circulating any 
diploma or certificate purporting to be 
by authority of the Order which is not 
authorized by law. — 5". G. L. 4186. 



SECRET RECORDS. 



815. The secret records and workings 
of an encampment cannot be introduced 
in evidence or exposed in any other 



place or before any other tribunal except 
in such encampment or trial committee 
thereof. — S. G. L. 11 103. 



SPECIAL SESSIONS. 

[See Degrees] 



816. Any Grand Encampment may 
hold special sessions as often as may 
be deemed necessary in their respective 
jurisdictions to give instruction in the 

7 



unwritten work of the Order and to 
confer the Grand Encampment Degree. 
—S. G. L. 8079. 



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817. Special sessions as above pro- 
vided for may be held at such places 
within the jurisdiction of such Grand 
Body as may be determmed by the 
Grand Patriarch unless otherwise pro- 
vided by the laws of the Grand Body. 
At such sessions no busmess shall be 
transacted other than is provided for m 
the foregoing paragraph.— 5. G. L. «079. 

818. The Grand Patriarch, ,,Grand 
High Priest or Grand Senior Warden 
and the Grand Scribe shall be required to 



attend all such special sessions of Gjand 
Encampments, and five members of the 
Grand Encampment of said jurisdiction 
being in good standing shall constitute 
a quorum. — S. G. L. 8o79- 

819. Past Officers from any part of 
the jurisdiction in which such special 
sessions are held and entitled to mem- 
bership in such Grand Body shall be 
privileged to attend and receive the 
degrees and instruction to be given by 
the Grand Officers.— 5". G. L. 8079- 



SUPPLIES. 

[See Question Book] 



820. All Grand and subordinate bodies 
and individual members thereof of this 
Order are directed to refrain from print- 
ing, publishing and issuing any article 
entered upon the list of supplies that 
form a part of the sources of revenue 
of the S. G. L.-5. G. L. 6278. 

821. All the " forms," whether of 
chart, certificate, diploma or kindred 
forms, published by the S. G. L are 
exclusively the property of said body, 



designed by it and necessary to its 
welfare and prosperity. — 5". G. L. 
8117. 

822. The S. G. L. does not desire to 
prohibit the publication and circulation 
of charts containing emblems of the 
Order until published by it, so long as 
they contain no certificate or form re- 
quiring the signature of an officer of 
any lodge or encampment. Grand or 
subordinate. — S. G. L. 8212. 



SUSPENDED MEMBER. 



823 A member of the Order suspend- 
ed or expelled from an encampment m 
any jurisdiction or sovereignty shall not 
be admitted to membership in an en- 
campment in another jurisdiction or sov- 
ereignty without the previously obtained 
consent of the encampment from which 
he is suspended or expelled; provided, 
however, that members suspended or 
dropped for non-payment of dues only 



may be admitted to membership in an- 
other jurisdiction or sovereignty upon 
such conditions and under such rules 
and regulations as the S. G. L. may have 
prescribed or may at any time adopt.— 
S. G. L. Constitution. 

824 A suspended member of an encamp- 
ment is not entitled to wear any part of 
encampment regalia.— 1877, Fa. 3»0- 



SUSPENSION. 

(a) Of Encampments. 

(6) Of Members for Non-Payment of Dues. 

[See Charges and Trial, Reinstatement, Restoration, and Ballot] 

(a) Of Encampments. 



825 A Grand Encampment, when its 
Constitution does not designate any 
mode of proceeding in reference there- 
to may suspend or take from a subor- 
dinate its charter without previous 
notice being given to said encampment 
or any opportunity afforded her to vin- 
dicate her course; but it would be a 
very unjust act and contrary not only 
to the spirit, but to the general usage 
of the Order -S. G. L. 812, 1198, 1919. 



826. If an encampment, after being 
duly notified of the facts by the Grand 
Patriarch of the jurisdiction and being 
forbidden by him so to do, persists and 
elects and initiates a person contrary 
to law, the Grand Patriarch may suspend 
the encampment and demand its charter 
for insubordination.— 5. G. L. 11 105. 

827 Whether a Grand Patriarch shall 
have power during the recess of a 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



99 



Grand Encampment to suspend a sub- 
ordinate is a subject for local law. — 
5. G. L. 2700. 

828. A D. D. G. P. has no authority 
to suspend or reclaim a charter of a sub- 
ordinate encampment, unless he is act- 
ing as the special deputy by special ap- 
pointment and written authority for that 
specific purpose from the Grand Patri- 
arch. — 1902, vS. G. L. 863. 

829. When the charter of an encamp- 
ment is suspended or reclaimed by the 
Grand Patriarch it must be reported 
by him at the next session of the Grand 
Encampment as required by law. — 1902, 
S. G. L. 863. 



830. The suspension of an encamp- 
ment takes effect from the time such 
suspension is published or proclaimed. — 
1902, S. G. L. 863. 

831. It is the duty of the Grand Offi- 
cers to make such proclamation. — 1902, 
S. G. L. 863. 

832. When a Grand Patriarch sus- 
pends a subordinate body of which he is 
a member or withdraws its charter, such 
suspension or withdrawal of charter 
shall not affect his rank or standing in 
the Order during the remainder of his 
term of office and for a period of thirty 
days after the close of said term. — 5". G. 
L. 11385. 



(6) Of Members for Non-Payment of Dues. 



833. The following form of notice to a 
member liable for suspension for non- 
payment of dues should be used. 



on December 28 of the same year, the 
period not being one year. — S. G. L. 
15169. 



JEncampmcnt, IRo. -ir» 



>,3f» 



.190 



Patriarch 

You are hereby notified that you are indebted to the Encampment for an amount in excess of one 

year's dues and assessments and that on you will owe $ 

for dues and assessments. 

In accordance with the Constitution for our Subordinate Encampments you are hereby notified that 
the matter of your suspension for non-payment of dues will be considered at a stated meeting of the 

Encampment to be held and unless the amount of your 

indebtedness shall, in the meantime, be reduced to less than one year's dues, or | , or 

unless the Encampment directs otherwise at the time, you will be suspended. 

Kindly give this notice the attention it deserves, and make an effort to retain your membership. 



I SEAL I 



Yours in F. H. and C. 



Scribe. 



834. A member of the Order who be- 
comes in arrears for dues for the period 
of one year may be suspended or 
dropped from membership, but he cannot 
be expelled from the Order on account 
of being in arrears for dues. — S. G. L. 
4397, 4848, 8487, 1900, S. G. L. 518. 

835. To suspend or drop a Patriarch 
for the non-payment of dues, the time 
fixed by law must be regarded, and not 
the amount due. A Patriarch clear of 
the books on the first of January, for in- 
stance, cannot be suspended or dropped 
until a year thereafter, no matter to 
what amount his dues may accumulate 
in the intermediate time by fines or 
otherwise.— vS. G. L. 



836. A member whose dues were paid 
to January i could not be suspended 



837. An encampment cannot refuse to 
receive in full or in part the dues of a 
member prior to his suspension, and no 
member can be suspended or dropped 
from membership in the Order for non- 
payment of dues unless at the time of 
his suspension he shall be indebted to 
the encampment for one year's dues. — 
6". G. L. 7505. 

838. An encampment cannot refuse to 
receive, in full or in part, the dues of a 
member prior to his suspension, even if 
the Constitution of subordinates pro- 
vides that after he is indebted to the 
amount of one year's dues he shall be 
suspended unless he pays the whole 
amount due. — 5. G. L. 6575. 

839. Patriarchs who have not been 
notified in accordance with the Consti- 



UOfC 



100 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



tution of the Subordinate Encampment, 
cannot be legally suspended for the non- 
payment of dues. — 1902, Pa. 250. 

840. An encampment cannot legally 
suspend a member for non-payment of 
dues on a two weeks' notice. The Con- 
stitution requires one month's notice. — 
1904, Pa. 258. 

841. A Patriarch was legally notified 
by the Scribe prior to September 26, of 
his liability to suspension for non-pay- 
ment of dues. On September 26, on 
motion, he was carried over for six 
months; at the end of that time he had 
not paid any dues or expressed a desire 
to retain his membership. Hence, in 
accordance with legal notice on former 
action, he was suspended for non-pay- 
ment of dues.— 1889, Pa. 586. 

842. A motion to " reconsider " the 
suspension of a member is not in con- 
formity with law, as it is not within 
the privilege of the Patriarchs to vote 
for the " reconsideration " of an action 
in which they had no vote to effect its 
finality. Having been suspended there are 
but two methods by which a Patriarch 
can again become a member ; the one is 
to seek his remedy by an appeal from the 
action of the encampment, and the other 
by reinstatement in the manner pre- 
scribed by law. The " reconsideration 



of the suspension " is therefore, wholly 
out of order. — 1889, Pa. 586. 

843. A Patriarch having been legally 
notified that he was liable to suspension ; 
a motion which was adopted to carry 
him over for six months was merely 
extending the time for payment — or giv- 
ing him special privileges and oppor- 
tunities to pay his arrearages before 
being suspended; and at the expiration 
of six months no further legal notice 
is required ; failing to pay his arrear- 
ages within the limit of six months fixed 
by the action of the encampment he is 
very properly suspended. — 1889, Pa. 586. 

844. A Scribe for several years credit- 
ed himself with dues in payment for his 
services as Scribe without authority of 
the encampment. Refusing to pay his 
dues, he was suspended, it not appearing 
that the encampment was indebted to 
him. Held, that the suspension was 
valid.— 5. G. L. 8055. 

845. A member of an encampment, 
becoming insane seven months in arrears 
for dues, is sent to an insane asylum, 
where he remained for more than five 
months. Nothing was paid on his 
account after he became insane, he hav- 
ing no legal guardian or committee. 
Held, that under the facts stated he 
should not be suspended. — S. G. L. 10252. 



TERMS. 

(a) Of Grand Officers. 

(6) Of Subordinate Officers. 

[See Passwords, and Installation] 



(a) Of Grand Officers. 



846. The term of service for Grand 
Officers as recognized by all the pro- 
ceedings of the S. G. L. is one year. 
Grand Officers who are elected for the 
brief period of three or four months 
are not entitled to the official honors of 



said office except that when an officer 
voluntarily withdraws from the duties 
of a station he forfeits the honors there- 
of, and the successor who fulfills the 
duties of the unexpired term becomes 
entitled to said honors. — S. G. L. 1840. 



(6) Of Subordinate Officers. 



847. The terms of all the officers of 
all subordinate lodges and encampments 
must correspond with the ternis of the 
particular subordinate in which they 
hold office, six months or one year, as 
the case may be. In cases of newly- 
instituted or resuscitated subordinates 
their first officers hold their offices for 
such length of time as is prescribed, for 
the first terms of such subordinates, 
called special terms, viz., for the remain- 



der of the term if the subordinate is 
instituted during the first half of a reg- 
ular term, and if instituted during the 
last half, then for the remainder of that 
term and during the next regular term. — 
6". G. L. ii744» 11900- 

848. Neither a Grand Encampment 
nor any body subordinate to the S. G. L. 
can change the terms of office. — S. G. L. 
5804. 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



lOI 



849. Terms of subordinate encamp- 
ments are six months, commencing with 
the first meeting in January and July; 
but the Grand Bodies to which they are 
immediately subordinate may, in their 
discretion, change the commencement 
of such terms to the first meeting in 
April and October, instead of January 
and July. — 5. G. L. 11743. 

850. Grand Encampments are author- 
ized to make the terms of their subor- 
dinates one year instead of six months, 
to commence with the first meeting in 
January, April, July or October as they 
may see fit. All terms of subordinate 
bodies end when the succeeding one be- 
gins ; that is, on the first meeting in 
January and July or April and October. 
No other or different terms than six 
months or one year are allowed. — 5". G. 
L. 117 A3- 

851. Under the foregoing, Held, that 
said Grand Bodies are also authorized 
to reverse the order, and change the 
term of an encampment from one year 
to six months ; and during the interim 
of sessions of subordinate Grand Bod- 
ies, the executive officers thereof possess 
the right and privilege of granting dis- 
pensations to the above effect, subject to 
the approval of their respective Grand 
Bodies. — 5. G. L. 11894, 

852. The term of a subordinate en- 
campment must be either six months or 
one year, as the Grand Encampment may 
determine.— 1899, •S'. G. L. 33.^ 



853. A majority of the meeting nights 
of a six months' term of a subordinate 
encampment is seven (7), of yearly 
terms with semi-monthly meetings, thir- 
teen (13); and with monthly meetings 
seven (7). — 1903, Pa. 24. 

854. Lodges and encampments are not 
on the same basis as to terms. The for- 
mer can have no terms in which seven 
meetings form a majority of the meeting 
nights of a term. — S. G. L. 14686. 

855. A Grand Encampment has no 
power to fix a three months' term for 
subordinate encampments. — 1899, S. G. 
L. 33. 

856. Grand Encampments are author- 
ized to provide that in any subordinate 
encampment meeting semi-monthly, the 
terms of the Scribe, Financial Scribe 
or Treasurer of any such encampment 
or of any said officers, shall be one year, 
without establishing a yearly term for 
other officers or for reports. — S. G. L. 
12226. 

857. A trustee is not an officer of an 
encampment within the meaning of the 
law defining and determining the terms 
of offices of a subordiate encampment. 
It is within the power of such subor- 
dinate body to determine by its By-laws 
the terms of office of its trustees ; pro- 
vided, that such By-laws do not conflict 
with the provisions of the Constitution 
for the government of subordinates 
adopted by the Grand Encampment of 
the jurisdiction within which such sub- 
ordinate is located. — 5*. G. L. 12613. 



TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. 

[See Membership, Application for Membership, Proposition for Membership, Grand Patriarch, Transfer 

of Membership] 



858. The territorial jurisdiction of the 
subordinate encampment is the terri- 
tory from the residents of which an en- 
campment may recruit its membership 
without asking the permission of any 
other encampment. This does not, how- 
ever, necessarily imply that within this 
territory an encampment has exclusive 
authority, for in most instances it will 
be found that within the boundaries of 
this territory it exercises concurrent 
jurisdiction either in whole or in part 
with other encampments. The boundar- 
ies of the territorial jurisdiction of a 
subordinate encampment are determined 
first by the boundaries of the township, 
borough or city within which it is 
located, and second, where no encamp- 
ment in the township, borough or city 
intervene, by the location of the nearest 



encampment in the adjoining territory, 
provided that the adjoining territory is 
located within the boundaries of the 
State. — 5". G. L. 12790, 1200, 9681, 10250, 
11105, 11127. 

859. No person shall be admitted to 
membership in an encampment other 
than the one nearest his residence, either 
by initiation or on deposit of card, with- 
out the consent of such nearest encamp- 
ment, but if there be two or more equally 
distant, the option which to join is with 
the applicant. — 1906, Pa. 240. 

860. Where two or more encamp- 
ments are located in the limits of 
any township, borough or city, said en- 
campments shall be considered as having 
the said township, borough or city, as 



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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



the case may be, for a common location, 
without regard to whether or not they 
meet in one and the same hall ; and 
therefore any eligible person resident of 
such township, borough or city, as afore- 
said, applying for admission, whether by 
initiation or card, shall have the option 
as to which of the encampments in his 
township, borough or city he will make 
application for membership, they being 
technically equally distant from his resi- 
dence. Provided, that with respect to 
all other encampments in this Grand 
Jurisdiction except the encampments 
located in the same township, borough 
or city, the territorial jurisdiction of 
each encampment so situated in a town- 
ship, borough or city, shall be deter- 
mined by the general law as above 



change this boundary line so as to suit 
their own convenience or the conveni- 
ences of travel, they are hereby author- 
ized to mutually enter into an agreement, 
fixing the boundary line between their 
two several territorial jurisdictions, and 
when the same has been submitted to 
and approved by the Grand Patriarch, 
it shall be binding upon the said encamp- 
ments, and all brothers eligible to mem- 
bership who may reside within the ter- 
ritory comprehended in the agreement so 
entered into by the two encampments, as 
aforesaid. — 1906, Pa. 240. 

862. The following is the form of 
request for permission to admit a brother 
residing beyond the territorial juris- 
diction of the encampment. 



Bncampmcnt» 1Ro» H. 



19 



To. 



. Encampment, No 

County, Pa. 



O. O. P. 



Sirs and Patriarchs : 

This Encampment has received a proposition for membership from 

Name 

Age years : Occupation 

Residence 



which residence is nearest to the location of your Encampment and beyond the limits of the Territorial 
Jurisdiction of this Encampment. Therefore, in accordance with the laws of the Order, and in the event 
of favorable action upon this proposition, permission is asked from your Encampment for his admission 
to membership in this Encampment. Any additional information you may see proper to submit in regard 
to the propriety of the admission of this applicant will be fully appreciated. 

A prompt reply is requested. 

Thanking you in advance for your courtesy in this matter, I am, 



I SEAL I 



Yours fraternally, 



• Scribe. 



stated, the measurement to be by an air 
line from the hall where the encampment 
meets. Provided, nevertheless, that 
whenever a person qualified for mem- 
bership shall apply for admission by 
initiation or deposit of card in an en- 
campment in the territorial jurisdiction 
of which he does not reside, it shall only 
be necessary to obtain the permission of 
the encampment or encampments nearest 
to his place of residence in order to 
make his election into the encampment, 
in whose territorial jurisdiction he does 
not reside, legal and valid. — 1906, Pa. 
240. 

861. Whenever any two encampments, 
whose territorial jurisdictions have a 
common boundary line, desire to 



863. The penalty to be inflicted upon a 
Subordinate Lodge, Encampment or Re- 
bekah Lodge violating the provisions of 
the law prohibiting Subordinate Lodges, 
Encampments, or Rebekah Lodges from 
admitting persons as members not resid- 
ing within their territorial jurisdiction, 
without having secured proper permis- 
sion as provided by law, shall be as fol- 
lows : 

Said Subordinate Lodge, Encampment 
or Rebekah Lodge shall upon conviction 
of such offence, immediately remit to 
the Subordinate Lodge, Encampment or 
Rebekah Lodge having such territorial 
jurisdiction, the initiation and degree 
fees received from the member so ad- 
mitted to membership, and that from 
time to time thereafter when requested 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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by the lodge which has received the 
initiation and degree fees, pay to such 
lodge, all dues received from said mem- 
ber so admitted to membership, and shall 
so continue to pay all such dues while 
he or she shall retain his or her mem- 
bership, provided nevertheless that this 
resolution shall not affect the present 
legislation or any decisions in respect 
of and in relation to members being ad- 
mitted by cards under facts herebefore 
recited. — 1906, 5. G. L. yyy. 

864. The questions to be asked con- 
cerning every applicant for membership 
to determine his situation in reference 
to his initiation or admissibility to the 
Encampment Branch by reason of his 
residence, are : 

1. Does he reside in the same town- 
ship, borough or city, as is the location 
of the encampment he seeks to join? 

2. Does he reside within the bound- 
aries of the State of Pennsylvania, in 



"territory" adjoining the township, 
borough or city, which is the location 
of the encampment he seeks to join, 
and is his residence so situated as to be 
actually nearer to the meeting-room of 
this encampment than to that of any 
other encampment in his neighborhood 
or equi-distant? 

3. Does the brother reside within ter- 
ritory which has been mutually agreed 
upon as belonging to the encampment, 
by this and some other encampment hav- 
ing a common boundary? 

If any one of these questions can be 
answered affirmatively, he may join this 
encampment without its obtaining the 
permission of any other encampment. 

If all of these questions be answered 
negatively, then the permission of the 
encampment nearest to his residence 
must be first obtained before he can be 
admitted or initiated into this encamp- 
ment. — 1906, Pa. 260; 1906, S. G. L. 777, 
77^, S. G. L. 1 1 105, 10250, 9681, 1200, 



TRANSFER OF MEMBERSHIP. 

[See Membership, Territorial Jurisdiction, Application for Membership, Ballot, and Investigating 

Committee] 



865. Any member of a subordinate en- 
campment of the Order, holding a visit- 
ing card in force, shall have the privi- 
lege of applying for membership in any 
encampment without first applying for 
a withdrawal card from the subordinate 
encampment in which membership is 
held. Upon election of such member 
by the encampment to which application 
is made for membership, said body shall 
notify the body of which the applicant 
was a member of such election, when, 
being free from all charges and the pay- 
ment of all dues and fees, upon proper 
application he shall be granted a with- 
drawal card. Upon deposit of said 
withdrawal card with said encampment 
to which he was elected, he shall be 
entitled to sign the Constitution and 
By-laws and be received in full member- 
ship from such time upon payment of 
the admission fees required by the By- 
laws of said encampment. — S. G. L. 
10973, 14596. 

866. The above is general law. A 
Grand Body cannot limit the same to 
those making " a change of residence." — 
1899, 5^. G. L. 41. 

867. A favorable ballot under the 
Transfer of Membership law cannot be 
reconsidered.— S. G. L. 1224, 9756, 9858, 
14596. 



868. The official certificate may be 
used as a credential in transferring 
membership from one encampment to 
another. — 1904, S. G. L. 539. 

869. A Patriarch cannot legally trans- 
fer his membership under the law of 
1887 as amended in 1895 and become a 
member of an encampment on present- 
ing his application, accompanied by an 
official certificate, without paying the 
necessary fees prescribed by the By- 
laws. — 1905, Pa. 22. 

870. A member of the Order entitled 
to a withdrawal card, changing his resi- 
dence from the territorial jurisdiction 
of his own encampment to the territorial 
jurisdiction of another, and desiring to 
unite with an encampment at his new 
place of residence, upon so stating in his 
application for membership, and being 
elected by ball ballot, as provided by 
local law, shall be entitled upon notice 
being sent to his old encampment by 
the new encampment to receive a with- 
drawal card at the actual cost of the 
card to the encampment, and to admis- 
sion to his new encampment without be- 
ing required to pay a card or admission 
fee ; but where a physician's certificate 
is required he must pay the expense of 
the same.— 1906, S. G. L. 785. 



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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



871. A Patriarch desirous of availing 
himself of the provisions of said law, 
shall send with his application for a 
withdrawal card, the sum of 25 cents 
(cost price of such card), and an addi- 
tional amount equal to four weeks' or 
one month's dues, which shall entitle 
the Patriarch to the protection of the 
encampment from which he proposes to 
withdraw, as far as benefits are con- 
cerned, for the period of four weeks 
or one month, or such less time as may- 
be necessary to complete the transfer of 
his membership. — 1906, wS'. G. L. yyg. 

872. This provision applies not only to 
the circumstances and conditions named 
in the Resolution of 1904, but also 
wherever it is otherwise applicable. — 
1907, G. Sire's Dec. 



(naming it), or that he holds such a 
card in full force (producing it), that 
he changed his place of residence from 
the territorial jurisdiction of his own en- 
campment to the territorial jurisdiction 
of the one he now desires to join, and 
that he desires to join such encamp- 
ment. If on this petition he is elected, 
by ball ballot, as provided by local law, 
notice should be given by the new en- 
campment to the old encampment where- 
upon he shall be entitled to a with- 
drawal card from his old encampment 
(if he does not already hold one in full 
force), and to admission to the new 
encampment on the conditions stated in 
the resolution of 1904. — 1905, S. G. L. 39. 

875. The following form of applica- 
tion should be used. 



To the Officers and Members of. Encampment, No 

working under the Jurisdiction of the Grand of the 

Independent Order of Odd Fellows of. 



I respectfully request admission into this Encampment and in consideration of such admission I 
promise and agree that, if elected, I will conform to the Constitution and By-Laws of your Encampment 
and those of the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania and that I will seek my remedy for all rights 
on account of said membership or connection therewith, in the tribunals of the Order only, without 
resorting for their enforcement in any event or for any purpose to the civil courts. 

My age is years, my occupation is , my residence 

The facts upon which I base my right to transfer my membership under the resolution of the Sovereign 
Grand Lodge of 1904 as amended in 1906 are as follows :- 



Dated 

Witness 

S. G. L. loi 48-10252. 



Signed. 



873. A Patriarch under the resolution 
of 1904 as amended in 1906 is not pro- 
posed on a regular proposition blank by 
a member of the encampment which he 
wishes to join, said proposition blank 
requiring the proposition fee to accom- 
pany it. The Patriarch makes applica- 
tion in writing, stating his desire to 
unite with said encampment, and should 
apply by petition setting forth all the 
facts necessary to entitle him to the 
benefits of the resolution of 1904. — 
1905, 5. G. L. 47. 

874. The application to the new en- 
campment need not be accompanied by an 
official certificate or a withdrawal card. 
The facts necessary to support the ap- 
plication must appear in the petition 
itself, as the resolution provides. This 
petition in addition to the facts set forth 
in the ordinary application for member- 
ship must state that the applicant is a 
member of the Order entitled to a with- 
drawal card from his encampment 



876. The Transfer of Membership law 
of 1904, as amended in 1906, is hereby 
extended to, and made applicable to, the 
encampment branch of the Order. — 1906, 
vS. G. L. 779. 

877. A member in good standing of 
an encampment, holding an official re- 
ceipt in date, changes his residence from 
the home of his encampment in Detroit, 
to Jackson, in the same State. He pre- 
sents his official certificate to an encamp- 
ment at Jackson, making formal appli- 
cation for membership there. He is 
regularly elected to rnembership, and the 
Scribe so informs his former encamp- 
ment, and asks for a withdrawal card 
for the brother. The encampment at 
Detroit in regular form grants the with- 
drawal card, and forwards the same to 
the Scribe of the encampment at Jack- 
son. The brother has not yet signed 
the constitution of the encampment at 
Jackson, but is ready and willing to do 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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transit the brother becomes ill. The 
encampment at Jackson thereupon de- 
clines to permit the brother to complete 
his membership by signing the consti- 
tution. Held that the granting of the 
withdrawal card under the circum- 
stances stated terminated his member- 
ship in that encampment and he is 



entitled to sign the constitution of the 
encampment at Jackson, the encamp- 
ment having regularly elected him to 
membership, cannot prevent his signing 
the constitution, simply because he be- 
came sick after his election. — 1906, S. G 
L. 440. 



TRIAL. 

[See Charges and_Trial] 



UNIFORMS. 



878. General regulations and author- 
ization respecting the regalia for all the 
Patriarchal degrees to be used on public 
occasions. Description of the regalia. 

Clause I. A dark suit of clothes; the 
coat must be frock; vest and cravat 
black. 

A Grand Jurisdiction is hereby author- 
ized to empower any subordinate en- 
campment to make choice of any par- 
ticular pattern of coat or color of vest 
or cravat. 

Clause 2. Gloves are to be black and 
to be worn on all public occasions. 

Clause 3. The hat is to be black 
beaver or felt, stiff flat rim, crown with 
a slight slope from rim to top and to 
be stiff, top to be flat, rim to be about 
three inches wide and crown about five 
inches high for an average-sized Patri- 
arch, but they may be enlarged or re- 
duced according to the size of the Patri- 
arch. The cord or band for the hat shall 
be yellow, one-quarter of an inch diame- 
ter, placed around the crown with acorn 
tassels one inch long in front. In front 
of crown shall be placed a black ostrich 
feather about nine inches long and made 
to stand upright; at the quill end shall 
be placed two ostrich tips diverging, each 
about six inches long, these to be held 
in place by a metallic tent on crooks 
crossed. 

Clause 4. The Patriarchal staff shall 
be painted black and about five feet 
long to the crook, which shall be about 
ten inches from lower end to top of the 
bend, the short end to point outward, the 
crook to be yellow. The staff shall be 
carried by every Patriarch, including 
officers and past officers. 

Clause 5. The Patriarchal staff shall 
be carried on the right side, resting 
agamst the shoulder, with the lower end 
of crook even with the ear and the short 
end to point to the front. The following 
regulations respecting the use of the 
staff shall be observed : 



First. When the Patriarch is not in 
motion the staff may rest upon the earth, 
but always upright on a line with the 
body and on the right side. 

Second. When the Patriarch is in 
motion the staff must be carried on the 
right side, arm extended with ease, the 
staff to rest against right shoulder as 
above described. 

Third. The second position may be 
changed so as to place the staff across 
the body at an angle of twenty-two and 
a half degrees with the body, and when 
the staff is thus placed by the right arm 
the left hand must support the right 
hand. 

Fourth. When the Patriarchs are in 
line to give honor to higher rank, the 
staff shall be placed immediately in front 
of and three inches from the body, the 
left hand also grasping staff six inches 
above the right hand, the lower part of 
the crook to be on a line with the ear. 
These respective positions shall be styled 
as follows: ist. Staff on order; 2d. 
Staff on shoulder; 3d. Staff on rest; 
4th. Staff on honor. 

Clause 6. The collar to be made of 
purple velvet with yellow trimmings, 
lace one-half inch wide, fringe about two 
inches wide, tassels three inches long, 
ends of collar to be united by three 
links. The size and dimensions of the 
collar to conform to the size of the 
Patriarch. On each side of the collar 
shall be placed two stars of yellow metal 
and a tent made of yellow metal or 
embroidered, three inches long, placed 
on each side between the stars. 

SPECIAL AND DISTINCTIVE REGULA- 
TIONS. 

Item I. Patriarchs of the Patriarchal 
degree are to wear a hat trimmed black, 
no feather, black collar trimmed with 
black tassels and bound with black braid 
one-half an inch wide. 



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Item 2. Patriarchs of the Golden Rule 
Degree are to wear the black hat with 
yellow trimmings, no feather, a black 
collar trimmed with yellow braid one- 
half inch wide and yellow tassels. 

Item 3. Patriarchs of the Royal Pur- 
ple Degree are to wear the regulation 
hat, black feather and two purple tips 
and purple collar as required by clause 6. 

Item 4. Elective and appointed officers 
of an encampment shall wear the same 
collar as prescribed for them to wear 
in the encampment, also hat with black 
feather and purple tips. 

Item 5. Patriarchs of Grand Encamp- 
ment shall wear the same regalia re- 
quired to be worn by Royal Purple 
Patriarchs, excepting the feather shall 
be yellow, tips to be purple. 

Item 6. Grand Representatives and 
Past Grand Representatives participat- 
ing with the Patriarchal branch shall 
appear precisely as required for Patri- 
archs of the Grand Encampment, except 
they may wear the Grand Representative 
collar. 

Item 7. Officers of the Grand En- 
campment shall appear as Patriarchs of 
the Grand Encampment, only excepting 
the official jewels. — S. G. L. jyz^- 

879. In 1898 all laws prohibiting wear- 
ing of encampment street regalia, 
whether with permission or not, were 
repealed and the old Royal Purple De- 



gree uniform restored. On the occasion 
of future public parades or other public 
ceremonies of the Order subordinate en- 
campments are allowed to wear the old, 
or Royal Purple Degree, uniform. But 
the law enacted in 1898, restoring the 
right to wear the old Royal Purple De- 
gree uniform, was amended in 1899 by 
adding the following proviso : Provided, 
that local legislation by the Grand En- 
campment so authorizes. — S. G. L. 15948; 
1899, S. G. L. 255. 

880. The wearing of uniforms is 
purely a voluntary matter, and any- 
thing that would directly or indirectly 
compel members to procure them would 
be highly objectionable. — 5". G. L. 8345. 

881. The S. G. L. refused to approve 
a By-law which read as follows : " Every 
Patriarch shall be clad in dark clothes 
and regalia, indicated by rule, charge 
or usage, during his presence in the en- 
campment." — S. G. L. 8386. 

882. The " white glove " properly be- 
longs to the subordinate lodge regalia, 
and is not so appropriate for the Patri- 
archal. — S. G. L. 8089. 

883. A D. D. G. P. is not allowed to 
wear a Royal Purple Degree uniform 
while installing the officers in a subor- 
dinate encampment. — 1899, 6". G. L. 2)2>- 



VACATION OF OFFICE. 

[See Eligibility to Office, and Honors of Office] 



884. An officer of the S. G. L. or a 
representative thereto or an officer of a 
Grand Body taking a withdrawal card 
does not vacate his office thereby if the 
same be immediately deposited in his 
Grand Body accompanying an applica- 
tion for a new charter, or if on occasion 
of change of residence the card be with- 
in one month deposited in a subordinate 
at his new residence; provided, that 
while holding such withdrawal card, and 
until such new lodge or encampment 
be instituted, such person can discharge 
no official act. — S. G. L. 2799, 3000. 

885. In case of the extinction of a sub- 
ordinate encampment or lodge in which 
an officer or member of the S. G. L. 
holds membership, the seat of such offi- 
cer or representative shall not be vacated 
thereby; provided, that within one 
month after such extinction he shall 
connect himself with some other subor- 
dinate encampment or lodge. — 5*. G. L. 
281 1. 



886. If the encampment of which a 
Grand Representative is a member is 
suspended, he cannot hold his office as 
Grand Representative unless he joins 
another encampment by deposit of card 
within the time fixed by local law. — 1900, 
S. G. L. 511. 

887. A Grand Representative does not 
forfeit his seat by reason of a temporary 
absence from his jurisdiction. — 1900, 
S. G. L. 518. 

888. An officer of a Grand Encamp- 
ment may take a withdrawal card from 
his subordinate lodge or encampment 
without vacating his office, although he 
does not intend to change his residence, 
if within one month he shall deposit it in 
and join a subordinate lodge or encamp- 
ment.— 5. G. L. 1 1487. 

889. A Grand Officer taking a with- 
drawal card has a right to deposit the 
same within one month in another en- 



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107 



campment or to immediately deposit it 
in his Grand Body, accompanying an 
application for a charter for a new en- 
campment. During the time between his 
taking the card and depositing it in an- 
other encampment or during the time 
between the taking of the card and the 
institution of a new encampment of 
which he becomes a charter member the 
discharge by him of the functions of his 
office is suspended, to be revived (if be- 
fore the expiration of his term) upon 
the deposit of his withdrawal card or 
the institution of a new encampment 
as aforesaid. In case he petitions for a 
new subordinate, he cannot sign the 
charter as Grand Officer or institute the 
new body, as this exercise of his office 
is suspended. Until institution the dut- 
ies of the office devolve upon the Grand 
High Priest. — S. G. L. 12790. 

890. The Constitution of a Grand 
Lodge organized on the representative 
system, and whose Past Grands voted 
for Grand officers in the subordinates, 
provided as follows : " Should any elec- 
tive officer fail to be present at the 
proper time for installation the office 
shall be declared vacant and shall at 
once be filled by the representatives." 
This is legal. It does not deprive a Past 
Grand of his original right to vote for 
Grand officers, but only provides for an 



election by the representatives in a cer- 
tain contingency, happening after all 
Past Grands have exercised or had a 
chance to exercise their right to vote. 
So also where an officer-elect of a 
Grand Encampment died before the ses- 
sion of the Grand Body. — 5". G. L. 8210, 
1 1 106. 

891. An officer cannot be displaced 
during the term for which he is elected 
for non-attendance in the absence of any 
Constitutional provision or By-law. — 
S. G. L. 1 146. 

892. A Patriarch having served a ma- 
jority of the nights of a term and then 
absents himself for more than four suc- 
cessive meetings, and his office, in con- 
formity with the law, is declared vacant, 
the Patriarch who is appointed and 
serves the remainder of the term is en- 
titled to the honor of the office. — 1903, 
Pa. 22. 

893. The suspension of a member by a 
lodge for cause after conviction, who is 
an officer in an encampment, vacates his 
office in the encampment. The encamp- 
ment has no power to allow him to serve 
during his suspension, and he can gain 
no honors of the Order through such 
illegal service. (The suspension in this 
case was for three months.) — S. G. L. 
8209. 



VISITATION. 

(a) The Right Of. 

(6) Examination and Introduction. 

[See Grand Patriarch, Grand Representative, and Cards] 
(a) The Right Of. 



894. A member of any Grand Encamp- 
ment shall, if in good standing, on proof 
of such membership under existing laws 
be entitled to visit any other Grand En- 
campment, anything to the contrary in 
any local law notwithstanding. — i'. G. L. 
5166. 

895. No brother can be admitted to 
visit or deposit his card in an encamp- 
ment out of the State, District or Terri- 
tory where he resides unless he presents 
a card as furnished under the signature 
of the proper officers and seal of the 
encampment of which he is a member 
and signed on the margin in his own 
proper handwriting, and prove himself 
in the A. T. P. W. and in the degree 
in which the encampment is open ; pro- 
vided, nevertheless, a brother may 
always visit if introduced by a Grand 



Representative or any elective officer of 
the Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment 
within whose jurisdiction he wishes to 
visit or by a District Deputy Grand 
Sire in jurisdictions where no Grand 
Body exists, Grand Representatives of 
either branch being authorized to intro- 
duce visiting brothers into both subor- 
dinate lodges and encampments in their 
several jurisdictions; but in all such 
cases the presiding officer of the same 
shall be satisfied that the brother intro- 
ducing such a visitor is a Grand Repre- 
sentative of the jurisdiction to which said 
lodge or encampment belongs ; provided 
further, that the holder of a dismissal 
certificate regularly issued by an encamp- 
ment may deposit the same in any other 
encampment, under such rules and upon 
such conditions as the jurisdiction in 
which it is offered for deposit may pre- 



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scribe; but he shall not be required 
to be in possession of the A. T. P. W., 
nor can he visit an encampment by virtue 
of such certificates.— 6^. G. L. 9028, 5^. G. 
L. By-laws. 

896. A brother in possession of an 
official certificate for dues paid to a date 
later than when the same is presented 
is entitled to visit upon the same (in 
lieu of a visiting card), upon proper 
identification, whether within or without 
his own jurisdiction, and is also entitled 
to be put in possession of the pass- 
words of the Order.— 1899, ^. G. L. 344. 

897. Being instructed in the Grand 
Encampment degree at a session of the 
S. G. L., the recipient being a Grand 
Representative, does not make him either 
a P. C. P. or a P. H. P. merely from 
the fact of his having been instructed in 
that degree from the source referred to. 
Such a person is not a member of a 
Grand Encampment, and is not entitled 
to visit a Grand Encampment. — 5*. G. L. 
1148. 

898. An encampment, with its officers, 
can in a body visit another encampment 
outside of its jurisdiction without cards 
or the A. T. P. W., but it is necessary 
that one of their first two officers in 
charge must be in possession of the A. 
T. P. W. and have his card. Such offi- 
cers may introduce them in the manner 
provided for the introduction of visitors 
by elective Grand Officers. — S. G. L. 
2792, 2990, 4467, 6350. 

899. A Patriarch, not in possession of 
a Visiting Card or an official certificate, 
but in possession of the Annual Travel- 
ing Password, cannot visit an encamp- 
ment outside of his own jurisdiction 
unless introduced by an elective Grand 
Encampment officer or Grand Represen- 
tative of the jurisdiction visited. — 1903, 
Pa. 22. 

900. A Patriarch cannot visit upon an 
expired visiting card or official certifi- 
cate.— 5. G. L. 15176. 

901. The official certificate can be used 
for visiting up to the expiration of the 
time for which the dues are paid in 
advance, and no longer. The visiting 
privileges are the same as the traveling 
card. No other receipt for dues can be 
given by the Scribes of encampments. — 
1897, Pa. 16. 



902. A member of a suspended or ex- 
pelled lodge has not the right to visit 
on an unexpired visiting card granted 
prior to such suspension or expulsion. 
He is suspended from his privileges in 
the Order and cannot visit an encamp- 
ment. — S. G. L. 1 148, 1470, 

903. A member of an encampment, 
who has paid his dues for one year and 
holds official receipt and A. T. P. W., 
and who is suspended for one year by 
his subordinate lodge, is not entitled to 
visit his own or any other encampment. 
—1904, ^. G. L. 538. 

904. A member of an encampment, 
who is suspended in his lodge for a 
definite period, has no right to visit an 
encampment or to participate in its 
benefits, yet if he continues during such 
suspension to pay his dues to the en- 
campment as required by the By-laws, 
his restoration to membership in his 
lodge ipso facto reinstates him in mem- 
bership, and his encampment, not having 
proceeded against him, but resting upon 
the action and punishment of the lodge, 
and his period of suspension having ter- 
minated, is bound to receive him. — 5". G. 
L. 3357. 

905. A member of a subordinate en- 
campment, who is in arrears for weekly 
or funeral dues more than thirteen weeks, 
is not entitled to the term password or 
to vote in the encampment, but is a 
contributing member until suspended, 
dropped or expelled in accordance with 
the requirements of the Constitution, 
and as such is entitled to visit his own 
encampment. — S. G. L. 7505. 

906. A member cannot be prevented 
from visiting his own encampment, 
although in arrears for the non-payment 
of dues, until dropped or otherwise sus- 
pended from membership. — S. G. L. 
1 1900. 

907. Subordinate bodies by existing 
regulations possess an inherent right to 
protect themselves from disorder, the 
want of decorum and violations of the 
ordinary proprieties of life, and where a 
visitor is so disorderly the encampment 
may refuse him admission or eject him 
from the meeting, although such visitor 
is in possession of the proper card and 
has proved himself, according to estab- 
lished regulations, entitled to admission 
into encampments of any jurisdiction. — 
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PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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(6) Examination and Introduction. 



908. After the visitor has been once 
recognized the examination and intro- 
duction in form may be subsequently 
dispensed with if the encampment is so 
minded; provided, the presiding officer 
shall find the card of the visiting brother 
to be in date. — 5^. G. L. 2923. 

909. After a visiting brother has been 
examined and introduced into an en- 
campment no future examination of the 
brother upon the same card shall be 
necessary in the same encampment, but 
he may be received into the encampment 
at the opening and through the whole 
session; provided, the presiding officer, 
upon inspection, shall find the card is 
within date at the time of said visit and 
the encampment shall be satisfied that 
the brother has before that time been 
regularly examined and admitted to its 
session on some former occasion on the 
same card. — S. G. L. 6266. 

910. A test obligation is no part of 
the mode of examining visitors pre- 
scribed by the S. G. L., and any encamp- 
ment would be deserving of censure for 
introducing any such requirement. — S. 
G. L. 1070, 1074. 

911. A Grand Representative or other 
elective officer of a Grand Encampment, 



acting in his official capacity, possesses 
the privilege of introducing a visiting 
brother to a subordinate lodge or en- 
campment within the jurisdiction to 
which he belongs. Therefore, a Grand 
Representative or elective Grand Officer 
in introducing a visiting brother, must 
himself of necessity make an official visi- 
tation and announce his rank and title 
at the inner door in order to exercise 
such privilege of office. Consequently, 
under the ritualistic law, he shall be 
acknowledged with the honors of the 
Order, which should be given after 
addressing the chairs and before the oral 
introduction of the visiting brother. — 
S. G. L. 11896. 

912. A Grand Representative has not 
the right to introduce visitors to a sub- 
ordinate encampment whom he knows 
are not members of the Patriarchal 
branch of the Order.— 5. G. L. 10716. 

913. The representatives of a Grand 
Encampment have a right to introduce 
in any subordinate encampment a Patri- 
arch whom the C. P. of said encamp- 
ment does not know to be in good stand- 
ing in the Order, without said Patriarch 
giving any password whatever. — 5". G. L. 
6007. 



VOTING. 

[See Ballot, Elections, Charges and Trial] 



914. A memt)er of a Grand Body can- 
not vote upon a question before said 
Grand Body for determination in which 
the subordinate of such member ,|is 
financially interested. — 1901, S.G.L. 6007. 

915. It is clearly against law and jus- 
tice to allow an encampment having a 
direct interest in any matter before a 
Grand Encampment to vote upon any 
question in which it is so interested 
The rule is the same, although the ques- 
tion be " only preliminary to the consid- 
eration of a subject in which said en- 
campment is interested," and although 
the Rules of the Order provide that 
" every member present shall vote on any 
question before the Grand Encampment 
unless he is personally interested in 
the result or has been excused by the 
Grand Encampment or is otherwise in- 
capacitated."— 5. G. L. 6625, 4363. 

916. Every brother present in an en- 
campment, if qualified to vote, is obliged 
to vote on all questions unless excused 



by the encampment, and no particular 
number of votes is necessary so long as 
a quorum is present. — ^9. G. L. 4992, 
5847, 6267. 

917. No member of an encampment 
shall vote upon any question relating 
to the fiscal affairs of his encampment 
in the result of which he has a direct 
personal interest, but may vote upon all 
questions concerning the leasing or rent- 
ing of the hall or other property of his 
encampment to any lodge, encampment, 
Rebekah degree lodge or uniformed de- 
gree camp of this Order. — ^. G. L. 
10094. 

918. No member or members of any 
subordinate encampment shall vote upon 
any question in which he or they may 
be interested, or in which he or they 
intend to become interested, by reason 
of his or their connection or intended 
connection with any lodge or encamp- 
ment of this Order then existing or 
about to exist or with any other organ- 
ization. And should a member or mem- 



no 



PATRIARCHAL LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



bers so vote^ he shall, upon the discovery 
and proof of the fact, be considered 
guilty of unbecoming conduct, for which 
he may be suspended from the Order. 
And the encampment in which the 
offense was committed may, in case said 



member has joined some other encamp- 
ment, institute charges for said offense 
in said other jurisdiction, with the right 
to appeal from its decision should the 
brother be acquitted of the charge. — 
S. G. L. S77^. 



WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND. 



919. The widows' and orphans' fund is 
a trust fund for the use and benefit of 
the widows and orphans of deceased 
members in good standing in an encamp- 
ment; it is a misapplication of such 
fund to donate or appropriate the same 
or any part thereof to any purpose what- 
ever except for the direct and individual 
support and benefit of the widows and 



orphans who are under the law legiti- 
mate charges upon such encampment; 
provided, however, nothing herein shall 
prevent subordinates, who may have 
placed their widows and orphans in an 
asylum or home, from using their 
widows' and orphans' fund in defraying 
the legitimate expenses thereby in- 
curred. — 5. G. L. 10986. 



WIFE. 

[See Insanity] 



920 An encampment has a member en- 
titled to benefits who has been in the in- 
sane asylum for several years, during 
which time it has been paying the weekly 
benefits to his family, until another 
woman put in an appearance claiming 



to be his wife by a former marriage, 
alleging that no divorce had ever been 
decreed between them. Upon this state- 
ment they should withhold all benefits 
until the legal status of the wife should 
be settled. — 1882, Pa. 304. 



WITNESSES. 

[See Charges and Trial, and Commissioner] 



WORK OF THE ORDER. 

[See Degrees, and Ritual] 



921. The written work is that fur- 
nished to Grand and subordinate en- 
campments; the unwritten work is 
found in the secret journal and diagrams 
in possession of the S. G. L., and can 
only be communicated orally. — S. G. L. 
1 193, 14680. 

922. The importance of each encamp- 
ment possessing the means of instructing 
newly-made Patriarchs in the unwritten 
work of the encampment degrees should 
not be overlooked. For years past it 
has been almost impossible for many of 
the officers of encampments to obtain 
this work correctly. Now that the 
means of so doing has been placed at 
their disposal all should be anxious 
to avail themselves of the opportunity. 
—1903, Pa. 37. 



923. The right to print or publish the 
lectures, charges or odes adopted by the 
S. G. L. for the use of Grand and sub- 
ordinate lodges and encampments under 
its jurisdiction, or any portion thereof, 
or any form of diploma now used by the 
S. G. L., is exclusively the property of 
the S. G. L., and any violation of this 
right by Grand or subordinate encarnp- 
ments or individuals is in opposition 
to the laws, rights and privileges of the 
S. G. L. The Grand Patriarchs of the 
several Grand jurisdictions are directed 
to cause the law of the S. G. L. in this 
respect to be enforced in their respective 
jurisdictions. — 5*. G. L. 1121. 

924. There is no law, ritualistic or 
otherwise, authorizing the use of fire- 
arms or appliances of that nature in an 
encampment. — S. G. L. 11482. 



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Ill 



APPENDIX 



AN ACT 



To prohibit the fraudulent use of 
the name or title of secret fraternities, 
associations, societies, orders, or organi- 
zations; also prohibiting the fraudulent 
wearing or use of any emblem, badge, 
button, or insignia of such secret 
fraternal organization; and fixing the 
penalty for violation of this act. 

Section i. Be it enacted, &c.. That it 
shall be unlawful, and it is hereby ex- 
pressly prohibited, for any person, firm, 
association, society, order or organiza- 
tion, or any officer, agent, representative 
or employe thereof, or person acting or 
pretending to act on behalf thereof, to, 
in a newspaper or other publication 
published in this State, or in any letter, 
writing, circular, paper, pamphlet, or 
other written or printed notice, matter 
or device, or by word of mouth, without 
the authority of the grand lodge, here- 
inafter mentioned, fraudulently use, or 
in any manner, directly or indirectly, to 
aid in the use of, the name or title of 
any secret fraternal association, society, 
order or organization which has had a 
grand lodge having jurisdiction in this 
Commonwealth for ten years or long- 
er; or to imitate such name or title, 
or any name or title so nearly resem- 
bling it as to be calculated to deceive; 
or to wear or use, or aid in the wear- 
ing or use of, any emblem, badge, 
button, device or insignia, fraudulently 
or with the intent to deceive ; or, to, 
without the authority of the grand 
lodge aforesaid, publish, sell, lend, give 
away, circulate, or distribute any letter, 
writing, circular, paper, pamphlet, or 
other written or printed notice, matter 
or ^ device, directly or indirectly adver- 
tising for, or soliciting members or ap- 
plications for, membership in such 
secret fraternal association, society, 
order or organization, or in any alleged 
or pretended association, society, order 
or organization, using, or designated or 



claimed to be designated or known by, 
such title, or imitation or resemblance 
thereof; or who therein or thereby, or 
m any manner whatsoever, offers to sell 
or to confer or to communicate or to 
give information, directly or indirectly, 
as to where, how, of whom, or by what 
means, any alleged or pretended degrees, 
or any alleged or pretended secret work, 
or any alleged or pretended secrets, of 
such secret fraternal association, society, 
association, order or organization, or of 
any alleged or pretended association, 
society, order or organization designated 
or claimed to be known by such title, 
or imitation or resemblance thereof, can 
or may be obtained, conferred, or com- 
municated. And any such letter, writ- 
ing, circular, paper, pamphlet, or other 
written or printed notice, advertising 
matter or device, shall be deemed pre- 
sumptive proof of the fraudulent char- 
acter of the scheme therein referred to, 
and of intent to violate this act. 

Section 2. Any person or persons 
violating this act shall be guilty of mis- 
demeanor, and, upon conviction, shall 
be punished by imprisonment for not 
more than three years, or by a fine not 
exceeding one thousand dollars, or 
either or both, at the discretion of the 
court of quarter sessions. 

Section 3. All acts or parts of acts 
inconsistent herewith are hereby re- 
pealed. 

Approved— The 28th day of March, 
A. D. 1907. 

EDWIN S. STUART, 

The foregoing is a true and correct 
copy of the Act of General Assembly 
No. 31. 

ROBERT McAfee, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



INDEX. 



Note — The references are to numbered sections of the book. The Roman nu- 
merals indicating those in the Forward part of the book and the Arabic numerals 
indicating those in the body of the book. 



Absence 

even if excused will not grant 
honors of office 530 

of officer elect may create a va- 
cancy 545 

Election at Installation by rea- 
son of, of officer-elect 545 

Officer late, is entitled to credit 
for attendance 605 

Roll Book as to, can be rebutted 
by other evidence 607 

Encampment judge of suffi- 
ciency of evidence to disprove 607 

Patriarchs obtaining a with- 
drawal or visiting card to re- 
ceive an order for the A. T. 
P. W 696 

of C P 678-679 

of S. W 681-683 

at installation creates a vacancy 890 

of officer will not create a va- 
cancy unless local law or By- 
laws so provide 891 

Successor filling vacancy so 
created is entitled to honors 

of office 892 

Absent Patriarch 

How charges preferred against 

and tried 192, 193 

Absent Witness 

Deposition of 226 

Absconding Patriarch 

How charges preferred against 

and tried 192, 193 

Accounts 

of members to be audited 51 

Accrue Weekly 

Dues 362 

Accused 

See charges and trial. 
Accuser 

See charges and trial. 

may appeal 24 

Adjourned 

meetings are not legal 601 

Admission 

of non-residents i 

to an encampment can only be 
by usual formalities 613 

to an encampment cannot be re- 
fused except during confer- 
ring of degrees and installa- 
tion 614 

8 



Admission to Membership 

of member of defunct encamp- 
ment 41 

by deposit of dismissal certifi- 
cate 151 

Encampment cannot initiate 
non-beneficial member unless 
encampment non-beneficial... 668 

Scribe to notify lodge of 684 

The Question Book must be 
used in examination of candi- 
date for 749 

of a suspended or expelled 

Patriarch 823 

of holder of dismissal certificate 895 
Admission Fees 

When to be paid to another 

jurisdiction 2 

Unlawful to refund 4 

Paid by a committee, unlawful. 5 
Encampment may waive pre- 
payment, at time of proposi- 
tion 6 

for deposit of cards 7 

for reinstatement 8 

Amount of 9 

Dispensation for reduction of, 

is invalid 345 

Advance 

dues may by G. E. be permitted 

to be chargeable in 359 

Age II 

Age, Infirm and Indigence 

Not equivalent to sickness 13 

Age, Infirm and Indigence 

may amount to sickness 14 

Aged Odd Fellows 

as non-beneficial members. . 656-659 
as non-contributing members.. 660 
Agreements 

as to benefits, void.. _.. 15 

made by charter applicants giv- 
ing them preference in benefits 
not binding on encampment. 90 
Amendments 

How By-laws may be amended. 120 

Not by tacit consent 121 

When takes effect 124 

Amendments to amendments 

not proper procedure 125 

. Local law may provide other- 
wise 126 

subject to reconsideration 127 



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INDEX 



Amendments — Continued 

not enforceable until ap- 
proved 122, 128 

There can be no amendments 
to an 294 

A proposed, will not be ap- 
proved 295 

Time of annual session may be 
regulated by an 296 

Subordinate Constitution can- 
not be amended by resolution. 303 

An, to G. E. Constitution is 
not effective until approved. 304 

not to be amended when under 
consideration by G. E 305 

Laws regulating, do not apply 
to new code of laws 306 

Report of Committee on Revis- 
ion lays over like an 307 

A revised Constitution must be 
passed as 309 

The form of, will not affect 
the validity of 310 

of By-laws may increase dues. 367 
Anniversary 

26th April, of the Order 16 

When may be another day.... 17 

Title of officers in ceremony of. 19 

June 19 — Pennsylvania Day 20 

of encampment not a legal ex- 
pense 49 

Effect of permission granted to 

hold 738 

Annual Report 

See reports. 
Annual Travelling Password 

Cards must be signed by holder 
in presence of officer com- 
municating 130, 134 

Withdrawal card not an order 
for 177 

General provisions concern- 
ing 690^03 

Ante-Room 

Degrees cannot be conferred in 329 

is a part of encampment room . . 608 
Appearance 

of accused, how obtained 188 

Appeals for Aid 

When permission of G. P. and 
G. M. required 37 

illegal unless authorized by G. 
E. or G. P 38 

not legal unless properly au- 
thorized 38 

Encampments not to notice 
irregular 38 

to or from another jurisdiction. 39 

for relief of individual member. 40 
Appeal 

must be through channels pro- 
vided by local law vii 

Supersedeas 21 

Mode of procedure 22 



Appeal — Continued 

Notice of, necessary 23 

Accuser may appeal 24 

Grand Patriarch cannot grant, 

to S. G. L 25 

to S. G. L. must be accompanied 
by copy of G. E. Constitution 

and By-laws 26 

to S, G. L. must be accom- 
panied by^ certified copy of 
Sub. Constitution and By-laws 26 
No appeal from report of a com- 
mittee requiring action by 

G. E 27 

Procedure when Committee on 

Appeals fail to agree 28 

to S. G. L. when consent of G. 

E. required 29 

to S. G. L. no consent of G. E. 
required for expelled encamp- 
ment 29 

to S. G. L. not a supersedeas.. 29 

S. G. L. regulates 29 

to S. G. L. when no consent of 
G. E. is required for a mem- 
ber of the G. E 30 

General interest of Order 

grounds for 30 

General interest of jurisdiction 

grounds for 30 

Member of G. E. may, when di- 
rectly interested 31 

Consent must be obtained by en- 
campment before it may 32 

Consent should not be withheld 33 

Memorial petition 34 

Permission may be asked by any 
member of G. E. for party de- 
siring to appeal 35 

Costs in 36 

A decision of an encampment 
refusing benefits unappealed 
from is binding and con- 
clusive 89 

from refusal to grant with- 
drawal card 174 

Charges and trial 249 

Who may, and when from 

charges 249 

Form of notice to encampment. 250 

Grounds for 251 

Form of certificate of encamp- 
ment to accompany 252 

Proof of service of notice of.. 253 

Form of appeal to G. E 254 

Penalty for neglect of encamp- 
ment to perfect 255 

from unreasonable act of com- 
missioner 272 

G. P. must issue his mandate 
for final judgment in appeal 

cases 498 

pending, affecting qualification 
of officer-elect is not a super- 
sedeas 548 



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115 



Appeal — Continued 

Encampment must obey man- 
date of G. P. before it can.. 590 
confers no rights except those 

given by the Constitution... 644 
likewise an, to the S. G. L. . . . . 645 
Appeal Cases 

G. E. not bound by previous 

rulings in 464 

G. H. P. cannot act in 478 

Application for Membership 

Necessary consent must accom- 
pany application of non-resi- 
dent 3 

by member of defunct encamp- 
ment 41 

Necessary statement in. ...... . 41 

on certificate of resignation.. 42 
Card must be returned to re- 
jected 43 

Card property of applicant 43 

Appropriation 

to pay admission fees, unlaw- 
ful 5 

Donation to members to parade 

illegal 44 

G. E. for dinner of representa- 
tive illegal 45 

by encampment to form Canton 

illegal 46 

for music at funeral illegal.... 47 
for charity outside of Order 

illegal 48 

to entertain Grand Officers 

illegal 49 

for expenses of anniversary 

illegal 49 

for clam-bake illegal 50 

Approval 

G. E. may withhold approval.. 123 
Committee on By-laws may 

withhold approval 123 

By-laws must be approved to 

be legal 122, 124 

Arrears 

in lodge no bar in encampment. 70 
Member of defunct encampment 
in, may receive defunct certifi- 
cate when 147 

for dues 370 

What, necessary to affect bene- 
ficial standing 370 

Meaning of over 13 weeks.... 371 
Time and not amount deter- 
mines good standing or 372 

Meaning of time in, explained. . 37s 

Meaning of amount of 374 

When the present week's dues 

are chargeable as 375 

Must pay all his dues 376 

In arrears cannot pay up while 
sick to become in beneficial 

standing 377 

What, are to be paid to pay in 
full 378 



Arrears — Continued 

Effect of penalty for arrears.. 379 
Payment of, in full while sick, 
does not entitle to funeral 

benefits 380 

Patriarch who was sick and dis- 
charged from Relief Commit- 
tee is beneficial for 13 weeks 

without regard to 381 

Encampment not liable for 
benefits, either sick or 

funeral, to one in 382 

An official receipt showing dues 
paid in advance makes the 
holder beneficial for 13 weeks 

after its expiration 383 

Patriarch suspended in Lodge 
may be in good standing for 
one year in encampment by 

paying dues 384 

of salary, will not set off dues . . 385 
Arrears^ through fault of Scribe, 
will not affect beneficial stand- 
ing 386, 387 

paid while sick, and death 
occurs from another cause, 
the Patriarch may be bene- 
ficial 388 

Patriarch in, voting, may not 

vitiate ballot 412 

Patriarch may be suspended 

for, in encampment 638 

necessary to suspend a member. 834 
Time and not amount of, gov- 
erns right to suspend for N. 

P. D 835, 836 

Encampment cannot refuse to 
receive all or part of, prior to 

suspension 837 

Constitution cannot take away 

this privilege 838 

Suspension for N. P. D. may be 
had when the accounts if cor- 
rected show that one year's 

dues are in 844 

more than 13 weeks. Patriarch 
can only visit his own en- 
campment 905 

Assessments 

may be levied for attentive 

benefits 72 

for funeral dues 389, 390 

may be levied for a funeral 

benefit 391 

must be adequate to pay the 

benefit 393 

must not depend upon the gen- 
eral fund for a deficiency. . . . 393 
for funeral benefits are legal.. 394 
are chargeable as dues at the 

close of the quarter 394 

Asylums 

G. E. may authorize 5x8 

Attendance 

of accused, how obtained 238 



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Attentive Benefits 

Sacred duty to nurse sick ^2 

Method of doing, controlled by- 
encampment 72 

May levy assessment for 72 

May charge dues for 'J2 

May draft for 72 

Funds for, kept separate 72 

May fine for neglect to render. 'J2> 
Beneficial standing not requisite 

for 74 

The character of, must be en- 
dorsed on visiting cards 108 

Amount and character of, to 
be endorsed on a visiting card 171 
Attest 

Scribe must, cards 130 

Auditing Committee 

Duties of 51 

Book for, on list of supplies.. 113 

Valuable aid to 114 

Authority 

None in Grand Lodge Laws.. ii 
Ball 

None without permission 430 

Ballot 

not vitiated by lack of proposi- 
tion fee 6 

for degrees, in Royal Purple 

Degree 53 

G. E. may authorize one ballot 

for all the degrees 54 

In Pennsylvania one, for all 

the degrees 55 

Encampment may refuse de- 
grees 56 

Members voting in, must be 

qualified 58 

Illegal votes vitiates 58 

C. P. cannot declare, void..,.. 58 
Encampment may declare, void. 58 
Ordering a new,, abrogates for- 
mer 58 

C. P. may correct an obvious 
error made by him in declar- 
ing a _ 59 

Two black balls in a, is favor- 
able 59 

By-laws cannot control a 60 

Local Law may control a 60 

General Law always controls a. 60 
When sickness subsequent to 
favorable, may make voidable 

a 61 

Two-thirds vote may set aside 

a, for sickness 61 

for transfer of membership, not 

voidable for sickness 62 

for withdrawal card 174 

Written ballot defined 407 

Printed ballot defined 407 

Blank, must be counted 411 

secret, when ballots are used... 414 
Not unlawful to ascertain, in 
election of officers 415 



Ballot — Continued 

Unlawful to ascertain how Pa- 
triarchs voted upon an appli- 
cation for admission to en- 
campment 415 

must be taken upon a report of 
the Investigating Committee. 561 

Membership is determined by. . 650 

Number of black balls fixed by 
G. E 650 

not on same night as proposi- 
tion 651 

G. P. may grant dispensation 
to 651 

for readmission to encampment 750 

for transfer of membership can- 
not be reconsidered 867 

Band 

cannot use name of P. M 666 

Bartender 

See saloonkeeper. 

member of a lodge may join en- 
campment 810 

Beneficial Standing 

not a requisite for attentive 
benefit 74 

A Patriarch in arrears cannot 
pay up while sick to become 
in zn 

in, if in arrears through fault 
of Scribe 386, 387 

in lodge cannot affect in en- 
campment 633, dz^ 

A temporary abeyance of, in 
lodge will not affect in en- 
campment dy] 

Beneficiary 

Father not necessarily, of 
funeral benefit of son 100 

Time of payment of funeral ben- 
efit time to determine loi 

When no, appears benefit re- 
verts to encampment 102 

Benefits 

Time when, to commence on 
admission by card. 7 

Agreement as to, void 15 

Part not allowed 15 

must be all or none. 15 

in payment of, encampment su- 
preme (i2> 

Benevolent and charitable feat- 
ure of order govern ^^ 

General principles governing. .. 63 

Payment of weekly, distinguish- 
ing feature of order 64 

Dues must be charged for 64 

To Subordinate Lodge belongs 
duty of paying 65 

General law controls 6z, 65 

Local law controls 63, 65 

in encampment may cease at 
end of period Ci6 

Minimum benefit law does not 
apply to encampment dj 



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117 



Benefits — Continued 

G. E. may remove requirement 
to pay benefits 68 

Suspension of, in lodge not a 
forfeiture of, in encampment 69 

Arrears in lodge, no bar to 
benefits in encampment 70 

Fractional part of a week not 
payable 71 

Attentive benefits 72 

Weekly benefits 75 

Obligation to pay, continues 
until charter surrendered or 
annulled 76 

First week's sickness 95 

Funeral benefits 97 

Funeral benefits of wife 104 

Relief 107 

are governed by By-laws ac- 
tually in force 121 

Encampment not liable for, to 
one in arrears 382 

G. E. may provide for relin- 
quishment of, by inmates of 
homes 534 

Patriarch is not deprived of, 
because of any want of bene- 
ficial standing in lodge 633 

may be held while investigating 
lodge membership 633 

Member making transfer of 
membership may receive, from 
old encampment 871 

for insane Patriarch, may 
be withheld until identity of 

wife determined 920 

Bible 

must be in meeting room while 

in session 112 

Black Balls 

Two, or less elect to member- 
ship 59 

Blank 

Ballots must be counted 411 

Boundary 

of territorial jurisdiction, how 

rearranged 861 

Board of Grand Officers 

may allow an encampment to 
change its place of meeting. . 489 

Duties of, in reference to change 

of name of encampment 664 

Books 

of Scribe and Treasurer to be 
audited 51 

How cards issue to members 
of defunct encampment when, 

lost 149 

Book of Abstract Reports 

authorized 52 

to be furnished new encamp- 
ments 52 

on list of supplies 113 

valuable aid to encampment... 114 

Encampment must have a 753 



Branch of Order 

issuing official certificate indi- 
cated by color 162 

The lodge, encampment and 
Patriarchs militant are dis- 
tinct 450 

Patriarchs militant is a 722 

Building Associations 

using name of order illegal. .. . 518 
This does not affect legitimate. 518 

Business 

Encampment and lodge busi- 
ness must be kept distinct... 115 

No, can be transacted after 12 
o'clock midnight 602 

Order of, obligatory 603 

of encampment cannot be prop- 
erly conducted without the 
necessary books of records.. 753 

By-Laws 

Only laws enacted by encamp- 
ment V 

Enactment of v 

of encampment certified on 

appeal to S. G. L 26 

cannot control a ballot 60 

may reduce weekly benefits to 

$1 77 

G. P. may grant dispensation to 
change, for a limited period. . 78 

at end of period, are restored.. 78 

G. P. may grant dispensation to 
extend period 79 

may regulate beginning of bene- 
fits 87 

must be followed in claims for 
benefits 88 

Regulations of, as to benefits 
must be uniform 90 

affecting benefits become opera- 
tive alike as to the sick or the 
well 93 

Encampment is not bound to 
notify its members of changes 
in the laws 93 

must be uniform and bear 
equally upon every member. . 105 

must not be partial or expost 
facto 105 

unless otherwise provided can- 
not go back of date of adop- 
tion 105 

when, become in force 106 

Only legislative power vested in 
encampment 116 

Encampment can make, not in 
conflict with law 117 

must follow Constitution 118 

G. E. cannot make, for encamp- 
ment 119 

Duties of G. E. Committee on. . 119 

How amended ^ 120 

cannot be revoked by tacit con- 
sent 121 



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By-Laws — Continued 

must be approved by G. E. or 

Committee on By-laws 122 

G. E. has right to withhold ap- 
proval of 123 

When amendments take effect. 124 
Amendment cannot be made to, 

when up for adoption 125 

Local law may provide other- 
wise 126 

Reconsideration of adoption... 127 
Must be forwarded to Grand 
Scribe to be presented for ap- 
proval 128 

cannot be repealed by a mere 

resolution 129 

Encampment cannot by, charge 

fee for official certificate 165 

Amendment to, may increase 

dues 367 

must provide for remission of 

fines 437 

cannot regulate membership 619 

prescribing a uniform dress to 
be worn at encampment meet- 
ings is illegal' 881 

Canton 

See Patriarchs militant. 
Donation by encampment to 

form, illegal 46 

Cards 

Fee for admission by 7 

must be returned if applicant 

rejected 43 

Property of applicant 43 

General provisions concerning., 130 

S. G. L. prescribes forms of 130 

must be signed by C P. and 

attested by Scribe 130 

must be signed by holder 130 

Highest title must appear in... 131 
not issued by S. G. L. void. .. . 132 
Not so with reference to de- 
funct certificates 132 

not to be delivered to encamp- 

f ment without order 133 

may be delivered to representa- 

' tive at session 133 

signed in presence of officer 
I communicating A. T. P. W.. 134 

printed exclusively by S. G. L. . . 135 

] Evidence of membership 136 

Defunct cards 137 

Defunct certificate 137 

Dismissal certificate 151 

Official certificates 161 

Visiting cards 167 

Withdrawal cards 174 

Cash Book 

Encampment must have a.... 753 
Ceremony 

Only one form of funeral, per- 
missible 450 

of installation must be that pre- 
scribed by S. G. L 547 



Ceremony — Continued 

G. E. must enforce adherence to 

those prescribed by S. G. L. 754 
There is no, for reinstatement. 777 
Certificates 

Defunct 137 

Dismissal 151 

Official 161 

Lodge has no right to refuse.. 182 
of lodge membership to accom- 
pany application for member- 
ship in encampment 182, 183 

Form of 183, 184 

Official certificate is sufficient.. 185 

no, for unworthy persons 186 

of lodge membership 621 

unlawful to refuse 622 

No vote necessary to grant. . . 623 
Expulsion for unlawfully at- 
taching seal to 814 

are a supply furnished by S. 

G. L 821 

Challenges 

Who may make, and how dis- 
posed of 211 

Change of Name 

of encampment 664, 665 

Charges 

G. E. must enforce adherence to 
those prescribed by S. G. L.. 754 
Charges and Trial 

Benefits improperly granted and 

received no ground for 94 

General provisions concerning. . 187 

No punishment without 187 

Right of P. to impartial 188 

Accused's right to be present at 188 

and to receive notice of 188 

Encampment can only expel 

from encampment 189 

No change of venue 190 

A copy of charge to be fur- 
nished accused 191 

Continuance of hearing when 

allowed 191 

Continuance must be to a time 

certain 191 

against absconding, absent or 

concealed P 192, 193 

Notice to appear at, must com- 
ply with the law 194 

for contempt, record must dis- 
close that notice was served 

according to law 195 

may be preferred to lodge and 

trial had there 196 

but not to encampment unless 
offence was committed there 

except offence general 197 

There may be, both in encamp- 
ment and lodge, when 197 

for false pretence 198 

How charge preferred against 
member of another encamp- 
ment 199 



INDEX 



119 



Charges and Trial — Continued 
Copy of charges signed by C. 
P. and attested by Scribe to 

be forwarded 199 

Record of conviction in en- 
campment may be used as 

evidence in lodge 200 

Offence must be within cogni- 
zance of encampment 201 

Concealing a condition of un- 
sound health at time of ad- 
mission is an offence charge- 
able and triable in encamp- 
ment 202 

No punishment without 203 

G. P. cannot officially prefer 

charges in lodge 204 

Grand Master is not authorized 

to transmit charges 204 

do not suspend an officer of 

the G. E 205 

The charges 206 

Form of charges 207 

Charge to be read 208 

Charge to be entered on min- 
utes 208 

Charges must be in writing and 

signed by accuser 209 

Copy to be furnished accused.. 209 
Form of notice to the accused. . 210 

The trial 211 

Trial Committee 211 

Appointment of Trial Commit- 
tee 211 

Challenges 211 

Notice to Trial Committee .... 212 
Form of notice to chairman... 212 
Form of notice to members of 

Trial Committee 213 

Organization of Trial Committee 214 
Form of notice to accuser and 

accused 215 

Manner of service of notice. . . . 216 
Effect of default by non-ap- 
pearance on 217 

Minutes to be kept by Trial 

Committee 229 

What to contain 229 

Report of Trial Committee 230 

Evidence admissible on 231 

Trial Committee to determine 

admissibility of evidence.... 232 
Witnesses not to be recalled 

except 233 

Records to be authenticated 234 

Testimony in rebuttal, how 

taken 235 

Trial Committee, to reduce its 

opinion to writing 236 

Report of Trial Committee 237 

Report of Trial Committee shall 
be received without discus- 
sion 238 

Report must be entered in full 
upon records 238 



Charges and Trial — Continued 

Scribe shall notify accused and 
accuser and furnish a copy 
of the report 238 

Consideration of report 238 

Attendance of accused 238 

Order of procedure before en- 
campment 239 

Rulings of Trial Committee may 
be objected to 240 

Accused has right to peruse all 
papers 241 

Accused has right to be present 
and make defence 241 

Ballot to be taken 242 

If guilty, penalty to be fixed. .. 242 

Expulsion requires ^ vote.... 242 

Motion to fix penalty treated 
as a blank 243 

Highest penalty to be voted on 
first 243 

Penalty fixed, Scribe notifies the 
Patriarch 244 

Form of service of notice.... 244 

In case of expulsion Scribe noti- 
fies G. S 245 

Grand Encampment record of 
those rejected, expelled, sus- 
pended 246 

Charges must be definite 247 

Proof of justification must be 
allowed by Trial Committee. 247 

Vote taken on a penalty pre- 
cludes a greater one being 
imposed 248 

Who may and when he may 
appeal 249 

Form of notice to encampment 
of appeal 250 

Grounds for the appeal 251 

Form of certificate to accom- 
pany appeal 252 

Proof of service of notice 253 

Form of appeal to G. E 254 

Penalty for neglect of encamp- 
ment to perfect appeal 255 

G. E. may direct an encamp- 
ment to prefer charges and 
try a Patriarch 475 

pending do not prevent an in- 
stallation of an officer-elect. . 544 

Subordinate Lodge is proper tri- 
bunal to try 625 

Charitable Features 

of order govern benefits 63 

Charity 

Appropriation to miscellaneous 
not legal 48 

Donation to, outside of order, 

illegal 48 

Chart 

Punishment for unlawfully at- 

tachingseal to 814 

Are a supply furnished by S.G.L. 821 

Published exclusively by S. G. L. 822 



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INDEX 



Charter 

Until, surrendered benefits are 
payable ^^ 

Applicants for, cannot make 
agreement as to payment of 
benefits 90 

Beneficial features governed 
only by By-laws 90 

granted 256 

Form of petition for 256 

Names of all petitioners must be 
in 257 

G. E. may refuse 258 

Entirely discretionary with G. 
E. to grant or refuse 259 

Brother with withdrawal card 
not proper petitioner for.... 260 

Patriarch with expired with- 
drawal card from encamp- 
ment may be petitioner for. . 261 

Fees paid by charter members 
cannot be applied to dues. . 262 

No provision of general law for 
duplicate 263 

Necessary provisions of dupli- 
cate 263 

Consent of existing subordinate 
not necessary to granting of. 264 

Special deputy to institute an 
encampment 265 

Form of dispensation for a new 
encampment 266 

What form of, may be used 267 

Five members may hold a.... 268 

forfeited 269 

Duty of officers of defunct en- 
campment 260, 269 

Donations to assist new en- 
campment are allowable 353 

Encampment exists until, sur- 
rendered or annulled 354 

G. E. exists by virtue of a, from 
the S. G. L 458 

Minimum number for a, de- 
fined 557 

Petitioners for, cannot rejoin 
old encampment except as 
new members 655 

By-laws cannot provide other- 
wise 655 

Fee payable when a, is re- 
stored 803, 804 

Restoration of charter 800, 805 

Effect of withdrawal card taken 
for purpose of instituting new 
lodge 884 

Grand Officer holding with- 
drawal card cannot institute 
new encampment 889 

Nor sign charter 889 

Charter Members 

defined 555-557 

Chevalier 

See Patriarchs Militant. 



Chief Patriarch 

cannot declare ballot illegal 58 

may correct obvious error 59 

must sign cards 130 

and Scribe may issue visiting 

cards 168 

to sign charges, when 199 

Election of, from floor 271 

to be eligible to, requires ser- 
vice as S. W 421 

by general law to be eligible 
to, require service as S. W. 

and H. P 422 

But G. E. may legislate other- 
wise by a By-law 422 

in absence of local law other- 
wise to be eligible to, requires 
service as S. W. and H. P., 

423, 424 

appoints Investigating Commit- 
tee 560 

Jewel of, described 576 

may refuse permission to re- 
tire when it breaks a quorum. 603 

one of the executive officers 
of an encampment 674 

cannot refuse to put motion. . . . 676 

must serve until successor in- 
stalled 678 

to receive A. T. P. W 695 

to communicate to visiting Pa- 
triarch password in force at 
time in visitation 700 

Semi-annual password to be 
communicated to 704 

When to communicate check 
password to member of lodge 
in another jurisdiction 708 

to endorse application for new 
Canton 729 

to be a member of the Relief 
Committee 782 

must be satisfied as to identity 
of visiting Patriarch visiting 
on card or official certificate. 909 

may dispense with repeated ex- 
amination of visiting Patri- 
arch 908, 909 

Chronic Sickness 

Encampment may provide for 

benefits for 66 

Citizen 

of one State, district or terri- 
tory not admitted to member- 
ship in another, without con- 
sent I 

Claims for Benefits 

must comply with By-laws 88 

Reports of Relief Committee 
unobjected to may constitute 

a 785 

Clam-Bake 

not a legal expense 50 

Classes of Membership 656 

Code of Patriarchal Law i 



INDEX 



121 



Color 

of oflficial certificate to indicate 

branch of order 162 

Purple color for encampment.. 162 
Committee 

appointed to report to G. E., 
action of no ground for ap- 
peal 2.'] 

Duty of 275 

Trial Committee, see " Charges 
and Trial." 

Duties of G. P. with respect to, 
defined 496 

Names and terms of standing 
committees will appear in 

Journal 514 

Committee on Appeals 

Duty in reference to excessive 

punishment 431 

Committee on By-Laws 

Powers of 119 

How By-laws forwarded to.... 128 
Committee on Election Returns 

G. P. cannot reconvene 276 

Report to G. E 278 

has right to judge of the facts. 279 

Committee can hold but two 
meetings 280 

G. P. cannot pass upon decision 
of 281 

G. P. cannot interfere with.... 497 

Report of, may raise a ques- 
tion of a contested election.. 507 
Committee on Legislation 

to receive copy of reports prior 

to annual session 515 

Committee on Printing 282 

Commission 

under seal of G. E., properly 
authenticated, must be recog- 
nized 348 

Commissioner 

Judge of time and place of 
meeting 272 

Appeal lies from unreasonable 
act of 272 

Unable to proceed, encampment 
should appoint some one else. 273 

only one, can be appointed 274 

Competitive Degree Work 283 

Concealed Patriarch 

How charges preferred against 

and tried 192, 193 

Consent Obtained 

of jurisdiction when applicant 
resident of another State 3 

must be obtained to admit one 
not within the territorial 
jurisdiction of encampment. . 859 
Consolidation of Encampments 

G. E. may regulate 284 

prior to 1883 legalized 285 

G. E. may determine name and 
number of 286 



Consolidation of Encampments — Cont. 

G. E. may fix conditions 286 

Illegal while 5 members of 

either are opposed 287 

Effect of merger 288 

Form of articles of argreement 

for 289 

Form of, certificate for 290 

Effect of, on honors of office.. 528 
Constitution 

for encampments certified on 

appeal to S. G. L 26 

Provisions of, not affected by 
financial standing of encamp- 
ment 75 

governs By-laws 118 

G. E. may make, for sub. enc. . 119 
S. G. L. will not dictate form.. 291 

Requisite provisions of 291 

How submitted for approval.. 292 
Not operative until approved 

by S. G. L 293 

No amendments to amendments 294 
Proposed amendment will not 

be approved 295 

Annual session determined by 

amendment 296 

An amendment to, not effective 

until approved by S. G. L. . . 304 
not to be amended when under 

consideration by G. E 305 

Law relating to amendment 
does not apply to a new code 

of laws 306 

Report of committee revising 
code must lay over like an 

amendment 307 

Reason for above regulation . . . 308 
A revised Constitution must be 

passed as an amendment 309 

The lack of form of an amend- 
ment will not affect its valid- 
ity 310 

G. E. is at liberty to frame its 

own 470 

G. P. cannot suspend, or any 

part thereof 488 

may authorize G. P. to permit 
an encampment to remove 
from one town to another... 490 

fixes time of annual session 615 

Book of, for signature 753 

Reinstated member does not 

again sign 778 

fixes number of Representa- 
tives from each encampment 

to G. E 794 

cannot take away privilege of 

members to pay arrears of 

dues and avoid suspension.. 838 
Patriarch elected to transfer his 
membership may sign, al- 
though sick (i2, 877 

Construction 

of local law viii 



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Contempt 

Record must show that legal 

notice was given 195 

Contested Election 

Encampment may examine Pa- 
triarchs to determine how 

they voted 416 

or may appoint a committee or 
any other agency for the pur- 
pose 416 

G. E. is competent to decide.. 462 
G. E. Judge of, for Grand 

Officers 507 

may come up in report of Com- 
mittee on Election Returns.. 507 
of Grand Representa- 
tives 506, 507, 508 

Contingent Fund 

G. E. authorized to permit en- 
campment to create 311 

Regulations of G. E. concern- 
ing 312 

Continuances 

How obtained 191 

To what time 191 

Continuous Sickness 

What period of working 
amounts to a complete recov- 
ery 83 

Costs 36 

Costumes 

cannot be exposed in public... 685 

cannot be photographed 686 

form part of the paraphernalia. 687 
Credentials 

G. P. cannot refuse to sign, of 

Grand Representatives 506 

Death 

of officer-elect creates a vacancy 890 
Debate 

Report of Trial Committee, 

received without 238 

Decisions 

of Grand Patriarch, reported., ii 

of Grand Patriarch 313 

on general law to be submitted 

to G. S 313 

on local law to be submitted to 

G. E. 313 

of G. E. in any matter final 

until reversed by S. G. L. . . 465 
G. H. P. cannot make, except 
when acting as G. P. pro tern 478 
Default 

Judgment by, before Trial Com- 
mittee 217 

Definite 

Charges must be 247 

Definition 

of general law ...>..... iii 

of local law iv 

Defunct Cards and Certificates 

issued by G. E 132 

G. E. issue, when 137 



Defunct Cards, etc. — Continued 

Force of 137 

To whom issued 138 

Legislation expost facto 139 

Defunct certificates confer same 
privileges as expired with- 
drawal card 140 

i.e., a withdrawal card over a 

year old 141 

Defunct certificate distinct from 

dismissal certificate 142 

Defunct certificate to member 
in good standing, after one 

year 144 

Withdrawal, good for one year 
from date of dissolution. 143, 145 

G. E. authorized to issue 146 

may be granted to one in 

arrears 147 

Dismissal to suspended mem- 
ber 148 

How issued when books are 

lost, etc 149 

on satisfactory evidence of for- 
mer membership 149 

Grand Patriarch signs 150 

Grand Scribe attests 150 

Highest rank attained to show 

in 131, 152 

Defunct Encampment 

Failure of evidence of former 

membership in 41 

All assets belong to G. E 314 

Disposition of assets of 315 

G. E. must distribute as pro- 
vided by general law 316 

cannot be applied to the infirm 

who are not aged 317 

May pay arrears of rent with 

funds of a 318 

Expelled members of, must ob- 
tain permission of G. E. to be 

reinstated 434 

Funds of, are trust fund in G. E. 442 
Purposes and objects of De- 
funct Encampment Fund 442 

Name and number of, may be 

used by new encampment. . . . 663 
Suspended member of a, rein- 
statement of 775 

Defunct Lodge 

Effect of membership therein, 

639, 640 
Effect of, on office held by any 
Grand Officer in G. E 885 

Degrees 

Fees for 9 

When reconferred on member 

of defunct encampment 41 

Ballot for, in Royal Purple De- 
gree 53 

One ballot for all the, legal.. 54 
One ballot elects to all the 55 



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123 



Degrees — Continued 

Authority to confer vested in 
encampment 56 

Right to refuse vested in en- 
campment 56 

Advancement in, depends upon 
encampment 57 

Election to, voidable for sick- 
ness 61 

Subordinate Encampment 319 

Authority to confer encamp- 
ment, is vested in encampment 319 

Has right to refuse to confer. 319 

Discretionary with encampment 
to confer 320 

No suspension for failure to 
take 321 

cannot be refused on account of 
ill health of Patriarch 322 

Provided that sickness was con- 
tracted after joining encamp- 
ment 322 

one ballot elects to membership 
and all the 322 

A Patriarch is not entitled to 
benefits until he receives the 
R. P 322 

Dramatic work of the, must be 
conferred 323 

But not without consent of his 
own encampment in writing 
and under seal 325 

This applies even though he is 
accompanied by his own en- 
campment 326 

The number of, to be conferred 
in one evening is a subject 
for local legislation 327 

Cannot obligate in P 328, 329 

Cannot be conferred in the ante- 
room 329 

In a degree staff the officers 
must legally be qualified to 
fill their places 330 

G. E. cannot confer encamp- 
ment 331 

G. E. may exemplify encamp- 
ment 332 

G. E., adopted in 1842 333 

No Past official, in G. E 334 

May hold special sessions to 
confer G. E 335 

G. E., can only be obtained by 
proper service as C. P 336 

G. E. sole judge of evidence 
to prove right to G. E 2^y 

Service as J. W. not necessary 
to G. E 338 

G. E. may confer G. E. degree 
upon request from another 
G- E 339 

G. E., must be conferred in 
room where G. E. assembled 
or in some contiguous room. 340 



Degrees — Continued 

District Deputies have no power 
to confer G. E 340 

A Grand Representative is en- 
titled to G. E., although not 
a P. C. P 341 

But such, so obtained confers 
no privileges 341 

G. E. may fix fee for all, at 
not less than $3 358 

Dues begin upon receipt of Pa- 
triarchal Degree 361 

may be conferred at institution 
of encampment 555, 557 

To attend meetings Patriarch 
must have R. P. Degree 608 

Admission may be refused dur- 
ing the conferring of 614 

G. P. may grant dispensation 
to confer, on same night as 
proposition and election .... 651 

Patriarch of the Patriarchal De- 
gree entitled to be admitted 
when encampment opened in 
Patriarchal Degree 710 

Patriarch of the Golden Rule 
Degree entitled to be ad- 
mitted when encampment 
opened in Golden Rule De- 
gree 710 

Patriarchs Militant a side 723 

The Question Book must be 
used in examination of can- 
didate for 749 

G. E. must enforce adherence 
to those, prescribed by S. G. 
L ; 754 

Reports must include those who 
have received the Patriarchal 
Degree 792 

May receive G. R. and R. P. 
degrees in another encamp- 
ment 324, 798 

Patriarchal Degree must be con- 
ferred in encampment in 
which brother has been elect- 
ed 798 

G. E, Degree may be conferred 

at a special session 816 

Degree Staff 

Officers of, must be legally 

qualified 330 

Degree Work 

Competitive 283 

Deposition 

How taken 225 

of absent witness 226 

of non-resident witness 227 

Deputy 

Special to institute encamp- 
ment 265 

Diplomas 

to be attested by officers of G. E. 342 

to be granted only by vote of 
G. E. or encampment 343 



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Diplomas — Continued 

Rank of recipient to be ex- 
pressed therein 344 

Expulsion for unlawfully at- 
taching seal to 814 

are a supply furnished by S. G. 

L 342, 821 

Dismissal Certificate 

different from defunct certifi- 
cate 142 

May issue to suspended mem- 
ber of defunct encampment. 148 

to accompany application for 
membership 151 

confer no right of visitation... 151 

issued exclusively by S. G. L.. 151 

shall show highest degree and 
rank 152 

to join encampment in another 
jurisdiction 153 

issued on encampment's refusal 
to reinstate suspended mem- 
ber 154 

Effect of dismissal certificate 
issued on refusal to remstate. 155 

after 5 years' suspension 156 

before 5 years' suspension.... 157 

Law concerning, covers all 
allowable cases 158 

cannot be altered except by S. 
G. L 159 

issued only to members sus- 
pended for non-payment of 
dues 160 

Rights conferred on holder... 895 
Disorder 

Visitor creating, may be refused- 
admission or rejected 907 

Dispensation 

No, valid to suspend weekly 
benefits 77 

G. P. may grant, to change By- 
Laws to reduce weekly bene- 
fits for a limited period 78 

G. P. may grant, to extend the 
period 79 

Form of, for new encampment. 266 

No, for temporary reduction of 
admission fees 345 

Law for, dependent upon usuage 
and cilstom, or express statu- 
tory permission 346 

by G. P. in conflict with Con- 
stitution void 488 

G. P. may issue, to encampment 
to change place of meeting. . 489 

But not to change to another 
town 490 

G. P. cannot issue, to change 
meetings of encampment 491 

to suspend meeting of encamp- 
ment is void 596 

G. P. may grant, to receive 
proposition and perfect mem- 
bership all on same evening. . 651 



Dispensation — Continued 

G. P. may grant, to encampment 

to have yearly term 851 

Distinguishing Features 

of order, the payment of weekly 

benefits 64 

District 

Citizen of, not admitted to 
membership outside of, with- 
out permission i 

District Deputy Grand Patriarchs 

have no pow^r to confer G. E. 
Degree 340 

by General Law, not required 
to have G. E. Degree 347 

holding commission must be 
recognized 348 

Powers of 352, 349 

Form of commission for 350 

Expenses for visitation by, to 
weak encampment 351 

Grand honors to 483 

Duties of, at installation. . .541-546 

Jewel of, described 567 

Jewel of Past, described 568 

must examine and approve a 
new meeting place of encamp- 
ment 592 

entitled to A. T. P. W 690 

to receive semi-annual Pass- 
word 704 

at installation may invite Can- 
ton to accompany him 732 

must wear regalia or jewel of 
office 732 

has no authority to suspend an 
encampment 828 

when acting as special deputy 
for the purpose, may suspend 
encampment if authorized in 
writing 829 

cannot wear R. P. Degree uni- 
form at installation 883 

Donations 

to members to parade illegal. 44 

by encampment to form Canton 
illegal 46 

to miscellaneous charities not 
legal 48 

to charities outside of order 
not legal 48 

to assist new encampment 
allowable 353 

G. P. should be consulted. 353 

Dormant Encampments 

Encampment exists until char- 
ter surrendered 354 

Draft 

Members may be drafted for 
attentive benefits 72 

Money, to be taken for relief 

granted 109 

Dramatic Work 

must be conferred 323, 328 



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Dual Office Holding 

A Patriarch cannot hold two 
offices at one and the same 

time 355 

Cannot be Scribe and Treas- 
urer 355 

Cannot be J. W. and Treasurer. 356 
Cannot be H. P. and Treasurer. 357 
Dues 

must be charged for benefits.. 64 
may be charged for attentive 

benefits 72 

continue to accumulate until 
charter surrendered or an- 
nulled 76 

Official certificate receipt for. . 161 
of charter members, not pay- 
able by fees paid by them... 262 
G. E. may authorize degrees to 

be conferred for $3 358 

G. E. may fix annual dues at 

not less than $1 358 

General provisions concerning. 358 
G. E. may permit encampment 
to require dues paid in ad- 
vance 359 

A fixed sum cannot be received 

for 360 

accrue weekly 362 

are charged at end of week... 363 

must be paid to Scribe 364 

Payment to any other officer 

not lawful 364 

Scribe not compelled to receive, 

during recess 365 

received during week credited 

at next meeting 365 

Encampment must pay Patri- 
arch's out of his benefits.... 2)^ 
Receipt for, paid in advance, 
does not relieve from payment 

of increased 367 

may be increased by amend- 
ment of By-laws 367 

How encampment may arrange 
for, to be charged when 

books destroyed by fire 368 

Principles governing imposition 

of 369 

Arrears of dues 370 

When chargeable 375 

Funeral dues and assessments. 389 
Overpaid dues are to be re- 
turned to a deceased Patri- 
arch's relatives 392 

Funeral and other assessments 
are chargeable as dues at the 

end of the quarter 394 

Receipts for 161, 395 

Patriarch must pay dues to 
maintain encampment mem- 
bership 628 

begin from time of reinstate- 
ment in lodge 634 



Dues — Continued 

must be paid by a member sus- 
pended for cause in lodge. . . . 642 

An expelled Patriarch cannot 
pay, although expelled by 
lodge 642 

cannot be charged during sus- 
pension of a Patriarch's lodge 647 

begin with receipt of Patri- 
archal Degree 361, 652 

begin on admission by card ' 
from time of signing Con- 
stitution 653 

No, for non-contributing mem- 
bers 660 

Amount of, to warrant suspen- 
sion for N. P. D 834-836 

Pavment of, to avoid suspen- 
s'ion for N. P. D 836-838 

Non-payment of, by insane 
member will not make him 
liable to suspension for N. P. 
D 845 

may be paid in advance by mem- 
ber transferring membership. 871 
Duplicate Charter 

No provision of general law 
for 263 

Necessary conditions for 263 

Eatables 

may be served in encampment 

room 588 

Election 

to degrees and membership, 
when voidable by sickness... 61 

Two-thirds vote may set aside. 61 

for transfer of membership not 
voidable 62 

of Grand Officers 404 

Time for, of Grand Officers, 
fixed by law 404 

Not necessary to make motion 
to hold 404 

G. E. may permit election of 
Grand Officers in encamp- 
ment 405 

P. C. P. must be in good stand- 
ing to vote for Grand Offi- 
cers 406 

Form of ballot defined 407 

of Subordinate Officers 408 

Patriarch in bad standing not 
eligible 408 

The right to re-elect officers 
is under control of G. E 409 

Definition of " Plurality " 410 

Blank ballots must be counted. 411 

Patriarchs voting, who are in 
arrears, will not vitiate elec- 
tion unless the illegal ballots 
affected result 412 

None but R. P. Degree mem- 
bers eligible 413 



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Election — Con tinned 

Secret ballot for, when ballots 
are used 414 

Not unlawful to ascertain how 
Patriarchs voted at 415 

Contested, voters can be legally 
examined as to 416 

Election returns 417 

Election returns will not be 
counted if incorrect 417 

A correct return cannot be sub- 
stituted for an informal re- 
turn 418 

Form of, return 419 

G. E. is competent to decide a 
contested 462 

Any majority of legal voters is 
sufficient for an 544 

at installation 545 

of disqualified Patriarch is void 551 

to membership 650 

Eligibility to Office 

Election of C P. from floor 271 

determined by S. G. L 420 

G. E. cannot legislate on 420 

of C. P. service as S. W 421 

by General Law, of C. P. ser- 
vice as S. W. and H. P 422 

G. E. may legislate otherwise 
by a By-law 422 

Unless G. E. provides otherwise, 
of C. P. requires service as S. 
W. and H. P. 423, 424 

of S. W. requires service in 
elective or appointive offive. 425 

Trustee is not a qualifying office 425 

may be determined by service 
in some other encampment. .. 426 

Residence outside of jurisdic- 
tion no bar to, unless local 
law provides otherwise 427 

Suspension in encampment is a 
bar to, in G. E 428 

All members of G. E. are, 
therein 429 

G. P. need not have G. E. de- 
gree prior to election 486 

But must have prior to installa- 
tion 486 

G. P. cannot pass upon, of 
Grand Representative 506 

Appeal pending affecting, is not 
a supercedeas 548 

Election and installation of one 
disqualified is null and void. 551 
Emblems 

Illegal for insurance company 
to use 558 

in public prohibited unless per- 
mission is obtained 770 

Enactment 

of By-laws v 

Encampment 

cannot present questions direct 
to S. G. L. or Grand Sire... vii 



Encampment — Continued 

discharged of financial respon- 
sibility by misrepresentation 
of age II 

cannot appeal to S. G. L. with- 
out consent 32 

Donation by, to form Canton 
illegal 46 

may refuse any of the degrees. 56 

has exclusive authority to con- 
fer degrees 57 

may refuse advancement in de- 
grees 57 

may declare ballot illegal 58 

continues as such until charter 
surrendered or annulled 76 

not required by General Law 
to pay funeral benefits 97 

to grant same relief to visiting 
or sojourning Patriarchs as 
to own members 107 

have no legislative power ex- 
cept to make By-laws v, 116 

By-laws of, must conform to 
law 117 

can only expel from Patriarchal 
Branch 189 

not to consider charges and trial 
for offense in Lodge except 
general 197 

cannot challenge its own min- 
utes 234 

Foundation of Patriarchal 
Branch • • -57, 320 

cannot decide as to legality of 
any act of G. E 348 

must obey communication from 
G. E 348 

must recognize commission of 
officer of Grand Encampment 348 

may submit any grievance 348 

But must obey before present- 
ing grievance 348 

Donations to assist new en- 
campment are allowable.... 353 

Dormant encampment 354 

on night of institution may 
elect and admit applicant 555 

not an itinerant institution 593 

must meet in its regular place 
of meeting 593 

membership in only one 661 

member may protest in 745 

Regalia of, described 760 

Representative must be member 
of, he represents in G. E. . . 795 

may use printed seal if the 
adopted seal of 813 

Wilful disobedience of, just 
cause for suspension 826 

Suspension of an, takes effect 
from the time of notice 
thereof published or pro- 
claimed 830 

may visit another, in a body. . 898 



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Encampment — Continued 

regulations governing such visi- 
tation 898 

rights of, may effect rights of 
members thereof to vote in 

G. E 914 

English 

Passwords must be in 586 

Entertainment 

of Grand Officers, not legal ex- 
pense 49 

None without permission 430 

Entering and Retiring 

C. P. should not permit retiring 
so as to leave meeting with- 
out quorum 603 

during recess, same formalities 

as at any other time 751 

Estoppel 

An encampment may be es- 
topped, by having treated a 
suspended member as rein- 
stated 781 

Examination and Introduction 

of visiting Patriarchs 908 

Excessive Punishment 431 

Excursion 

None without permission 430 

Ex-Officio 

Grand Patriarch as, of commit- 
tee, has the same duties as 

the other members 499 

Expenses 

of visitation of weak encamp- 
ment 351 

Expelled Encampment 

may appeal without consent of 

G. E 29 

Expelled Member 

Names of, to be entered in 
G. E. book 246 

froni lodge and reinstated not 
reinstated in encampment... 432 

Encampment must obtain per- 
mission of Grand Officers be- 
fore reinstating . 433 

from encampment which (be- 
comes extinct cannot be rein- 
stated except by permission 
of G. E 434 

cannot be admitted in another 
jurisdiction without permis- 
sion of encampment 435 

cannot be admitted to encamp- 
ment in same jurisdiction 
without permission of en- 
camprnent and G. E 436 

not entitled to visit his own 
encampment 707 

not admitted in another juris- 
diction without permission of 
encampment 823 



Expulsion 

Encampment can only expel 

from Patriarchal Branch 189 

requires a two-third vote 242 

Notice of, sent to Grand Secre- 
tary 245 

Grand Encampment can only 

expel from its own body 475 

forfeits honors of office 611 

of Patriarch from lodge 624 

Patriarch expelled by lodge 
cannot pay dues in encamp- 
ment 642 

severs membership entirely.... 644 

for unlawful use of seal 814 

for unlawfully publishing or 
circulating any diploma or 

certificate 814 

Member cannot be expelled for 

arrears of dues 834 

Effect of, of lodge on office held 

by member in G. E 885 

Extenuating Circumstances 

may modify penalty 12 

Evidence 

What evidence admissible 231 

Admissibility of, how deter- 
mined 232 

of attendance of officer other 

than roll book 607 

of standing of Patriarch in 
Lodge may be obtained in any 

legal way 631 

Secret Records not to be used 

as, outside of encampment. . 815 
Work of the encampment not 
to be used as, outside of en- 
campment 815 

False Pretence 

Charges and trial for 198 

Fees 

for admission (initiation) 4 

for admission by card 7 

for reinstatement 9 

for admission of non-resident. 10 
Excess, for admission of non- 
resident paid to G. E. of resi- 
dence 10 

No fee to be charged for official 

certificate 165 

paid by charter members not 
to be applied to liquidate dues 262 
Financial Standing 

of encampment does not affect 

Constitution 75 

in lodge cannot affect standing 

in encampment 636 

Fine 

for neglect to render attentive 

benefits 73 

By-laws must provide for re- 
mission of 437 

not legal for non-attendance at 
funeral 438 



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Fire 

G. P. may authorize a temporary 
removal of encampment when 

hall is destroyed by fire 594 

First Week's Sickness 

By-laws providing for non-pay- 
ment of, are accumulative... 95 
Means full two weeks' sickness 

before beneficial 96 

First Watch 

When, may preside (i'jy 

Flag 

described 439 

intended for E, and G. E 440 

Forfeiture 

of benefits. By-laws for, may 

be accumulative 95 

of first week's sickness, meaning 

of 96 

of charter 269 

of office not for bad standing.. 408 
Removal of G. P. from juris- 
diction works a, of his office. 500 
Form 

of notice to accused of charges. 210 
of notice to Trial Commit- 
tee 212, 213 

of notice to accused and ac- 
cuser 215 

of summons as a witness 221 

of appeal to encampment 250 

of certificate to accompany. . . . 252 

of appeal to G. E 254 

of petition for charter 256 

of dispensation for charter 266 

of articles of agreement for- 

consolidation of encampment. 289 
of certificate of consolidation 

of encampment 290 

of commission to D. D. G. P... 350 
of election return for Grand 

Officers 419 

of commission to special D. D. 

G. P. for installation 550 

of an order for the A. T. P. W. 697 

of P. C. P. certificate 712 

of transfer certificate for P. C. 

P 721 

of credential for Representative 796 
of petition for restoration of 

charter 801 

of notice of intention to sus- 
pend a member for N. P. D.. 833 
of request for permission to 
admit a brother residing out- 
side territorial jurisdiction of 

encampment 862 

of petition for transfer of mem- 
bership 875 

Found at Work 

Means whereby he may obtain a 

livelihood r • • 80 

Does not include works of 
mercy, necessity or charity. . 81 



Found at Work — Continued 

What amount of work will de- 
prive of benefits 84 

Fractional Parts of a Week 

Benefits not payable for 71 

Fraudulent Misrepresentation... ii 
Fund 

contingent, permitted 311 

contingent, authorized 312 

Funds 

for attentive benefits, nurse hire, 

or watchers kept separate... 72 
cannot be divided under guise 

of funeral benefits 103 

All, are trust 442 

Penalty for diversion of 442 

G. E. may invoke the law to 
protect the, of an encamp- 
ment 442 

of defunct encampment are a 

separate trust 442 

Purposes and objects of defunct 

encampment fund 442 

of an encampment not to be 
wasted by unnecessary ex- 
penses 443 

of G. E. are trust funds and 
can only be applied to the ob- 
jects for which they were col- 
lected 444 

Encampment cannot loan its, to 
a lodge, partly composed of 

its own members 445 

Encampment may loan its, to a 
member of the order not a 

Patriarch 446 

The special five per cent, fund 

authorized by S. G. L 447 

authorized by the G. E 448 

of an encampment remain trust 
funds should encampment be- 
come non-beneficial 449, 669 

of defunct encampment not re- 
turned unless five petitioners 

former members 803 

Voting to invest, lease or rent, 
provisions concerning... 917, 918 
Funeral 

Appropriation for music at, 

illegal 47 

But one form of, ceremony for 
all branches of the order . . 450 

Lodge has precedence at 450 

exceptions to, precedence...... 450 

Widow may express a prefer- 
ence as to procedure 451 

of Past Grand officer, the body 
whose officer he was has pre- 
cedence 452 

regalia described 453 

G. E. may permit regular re- 
galia to be worn 454 

None but prescribed regalia can 
be worn at a 455 



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Funeral — Continued 

of lodge member, not a Patri- 
arch lodge regalia must be 

worn 456 

of Patriarch, encampment at- 
tending must wear Patri- 
archal regalia 457 

Funeral Benefits 

of a Patrarch gy 

Encampment not required by 

general law to pay 97 

Nominal benefits not permitted 

by local laws 98 

Non-beneficial encampment may 

pay 99 

Father not necessarily bene- 
ficiary of 100 

Time of payment time to deter- 
mine beneficiary loi 

where no beneficiary appears, 

revert to encampment 102 

not insurance 103 

Funds cannot be divided under 

guise of 103 

Distinction between funeral ex- 
penses and, is recognized 103 

of a wife 104 

Draft for, of visiting brother. . 109 
not receivable on official certifi- 
cate i6i 

Amount of, to be endorsed on 

visiting card 109, 173 

Payment of arrears while sick 

does not entitle to 380 

Overpaid dues are to be re- 
turned to a deceased Patri- 
arch's relatives 392 

Assessments for, must be ade- 
quate to pay the benefit 393 

cannot legally be paid out of the 
general fund either in whole 

or in part 393 

Assessments for, are legal 394 

may be fixed in amount by a 

pro rata assessment 394 

Member making transfer of 
membership may receive, from 

old encampment 871 

Funeral Benefits of Wife 

may be limited to one wife 104 

Who is this wife 105 

governed by By-laws in force at 

time of death 106 

Funeral Dues 

Encampments are recommended 

to charge 389 

chargeable from receipt of Pa- 
triarchal degree 390 

Funeral Expenses 

must be paid 102 

Distinction between, and funeral 

benefits, recognized 103 

General Interest 

of order, grounds of appeal 30 

9 



General Interest — Continued 

of jurisdiction, grounds of 

appeal 30 

General Law 

Definition of iii 

Jurisdiction of S. G. L vi 

always controls a ballot for 

membership 60 

governs benefits 65 

does not require encampment to 

pay funreal benefits 97 

governs By-laws 117 

no provision in, for duplicate 

charter 263 

decisions on, to be submitted by 

G. P. to G. S 313 

does not require D. D. G. P. to 

have G. E. degree 347 

General Superintendence 

vested by general law in G. P.. 493 
Gift Enterprises 

'prohibited 589 

Gloves 

of encampment in procession to 

be black 878 

White, belong to lodge regalia. 882 
Good Standing 

Beneficial standing not required 

for attentive benefits 74 

necessary qualification for visit- 
ing card 167 

Members not in, cannot vote in 

lodge 176 

Withdrawal card granted by 

vote of one not in, illegal... 176 
P. C. P. must be in, to vote for 

Grand Officers 406 

Patriarch over 13 weeks in 

arrears is not in 406, 408 

Encampment of Grand Repre- 
sentative must be in 504 

G. E. may provide for good 
standing of Inmates of 

Homes 535 

at time of installation required. 552 
in lodge necessary in encamp- 
ment 620 

Lodge of Patriarch must be in. 620 
not in advance, does not entitle 



to A. T. P. W. 



701 

to date does not entitle to A. 

T. P. W. 702 

Patriarch must be in, to receive 

term password 707 

for password defined 707 

Before a Patriarch can resign 

he must be in 799 

Patriarch must be in, to visit 

other than his own encamp- 



ment 



905 



May visit his own encampment 

until suspended 905 

Grand Encampment 

Exclusive jurisdiction over local 
law vi 



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Grand Encampment — Continued 

supreme for local law viii 

Grand Patriarch acts for, dur- 
ing recess ix 

Consent of, to membership of 
a brother from another State. 3 

has power to regulate benefits 
to aged, infirm and indigent 
Patriarchs 14 

consent necessary to appeals to 
S. G. L 29 

authorized to grant appeals for 
aid 40 

Appropriation by, for dinner to 
Representatives illegal 45 

has authority to authorize one 
ballot for all the degrees .... 54 

cannot make By-laws for en- 
campment 119 

may make uniform Constitution 
for encampment 119 

to issue defunct certificates. 137, 146 

to keep a book of names of re- 
jected, suspended and ex- 
pelled persons 246 

may refuse charter 258 

may grant charter 259 

regulates consolidation of en- 
campments 284 

may determine name and num- 
ber of consolidated encamp- 
ment 286 

cannot confer encampment de- 
grees 331 

may exemplify encampment de- 
grees 332 

Degree 333 

cannot fix the conditions of eli- 
gibility to office 420 

jurisdiction in reference to ex- 
cessive punishment 431 

Funds of, are trust funds . . 444 

exists by virtue of charter from 
S. G. L 458 

separate from and independent 
of Grand Lodge 459 

is supreme for local legislation 460 

has all powers and authority 
not specially reserved to S. G. 
L 461 

competent to decide contested 
election 462 

has authority to interpret local 
law 463 

is not bound by previous rulings 
in appeal cases 464 

Decisions of, final until reversed 
by S. G. L. 465 

not bound by inconsistent par- 
liamentary rules 466 

may rule that the reading of a 
report constitutes its recep- 
tion 467 

must observe usual parliamen- 
tary procedure 468 



Grand Encampment — Continued 

Membership of the 469 

is at liberty to frame its own 
Constitution 470 

may require all members to be 
P. C. P.'s 470 

cannot by resolution make P. H. 

P.'s rank as P. C. P.'s 471 

cannot permit members of sus- 
pended lodge to enter or re- 
main in body 472 

Office in, vacated by suspension 
of lodge of officer 472 

Membership in, qualifies for 
membership in any other 
jurisdiction 473 

Grand Representative not a P. 
C P. is not entitled to sit in. 474 

can only expel for its own body 475 

may direct encampment to try 
a Patriarch 475 

may print title P. G. M. in its 
journal after name of quali- 
fied P. C. P 476 

may authorize an encampment 
to remove from one town to 
another 490 

is the judge of contested elec- 
tion for Grand Officer 507 

The question may come up on 
the report of the Committee 
on Election Returns 507 

authorized to permit Hall or 
Building Associations for the 
legitimate purposes of the 
order 518 

may legislate to create non- 
beneficial encampments 670 

may change term password 
quarterly 705 

may be organized of P. C. P.'s 
or with P. H. P.s 719 

P. C. P. must produce proper 
certificate before admitted to. 720 

Member may protest in. 745 

may authorize public installa- 
tions 746 

must enforce adherence to re- 
galia presented by S .G. L... 754 

must make laws insuring the 
making of reports and returns 788 

may have representative sys- 
tem 793 

has sole jurisdiction to deter- 
mine officers of encampment 
to whom salary may be paid. 808 

has a seal 811 

may use printed seal 812 

may hold special sessions lim- 
ited 816 

No general business to be trans- 
acted at special session lim- 
ited 817 

may suspend an encampment. . 825 



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Grand Encampment — Continued 

cannot change terms of office of 
encampment officers 848 

may authorize wearing of R. P. 
Degree uniform 879 

Member of, may visit another 

G. E 894 

Grand High Priest 

does not become G. P. by reason 
of vacancy in that office .... 477 

Special session cannot be called 
to elect a, G. P 477 

cannot act in appeal cases 478 

cannot decide questions of law 
except when acting as G. P. 
pro tem 478 

Jewel of, described 570 

to attend in absence of G. P. 
at special sessions limited... 818 
Grand Honors 

When given 479 

Grand Officers should address 
the chairs 479 

to whom given 480 

to Grand Representative 481 

not to be given to visiting en- 
campments 482 

to D. D. G. Patriarchs 483 

not to be given to special depu- 
ties appointed by D. D. G. P. 484 

given to Special Deputies where 
no D. D. G. Patriarchs are 

appointed 485 

Grand Junior Warden 

Jewel of, described 572 

Nomination for, how made 667 

Grand Lodge 

Laws no authority ii 

may authorize encampment to 
appeal to lodges for aid .... 37 

G. E. separate and independent 

of 459 

Grand Master 

to approve appeals for aid ad- 
dressed to lodges 39 

not authorized to transmit 

charges 204 

Grand Officer 

Office of, how affected by with- 
drawal card 178 

Election of 404 

Motion not necessary for elec- 
tion 404 

Election of, may be in encamp- 
ment ^ 405 

address the chairs 479 

have powers and^ duties as 
prescribed in the charge book 487 

Elective, may introduce visiting 
Patriarchs 487 

Duty of, to proclaim suspen- 
sion of an encampment 831 

Terms of 846 

I Grand Patriarch 

Questions submitted to ii 



Grand FApiARCu— Continued 

to decide questions of law dur- 
ing recess of Grand Encamp- 
ment ix 

Consent of, to membership of a 
brother from another State. 3 

Permission of, necessary for en- 
campment to appear in re- 
galia 18 

cannot grant appeals to S. G. L. 25 

may authorize appeals for aid.. 38 

may grant dispensation to 
change By-laws for a limited 
period 78 

may grant dispensation to ex- 
_ tend this period 78 

signs defunct cards and certifi- 
cates 150 

cannot officially prefer charges 
in a lodge 204 

Duties of, in reference to Com- 
mittee on Election Returns . . 276 

certifies to election of G. R. 
solely upon report of Commit- 
tee of Election Returns 277 

may call special session of G. E. 
to confer G. E. Degree 335 

G. H. P. does not become, by 
reason of vacancy in office of 477 

Special session cannot be called 
to elect G. P 477 

G. E. Degree not necessary 
prior to election 486 

must have G. E. Degree before 
installation 486 

Powers and duties as prescribed 
by charge book 487 

may introduce visiting Patri- 
archs 487 

cannot suspend the subordinate 
Constitution 488 

Dispensation of, in conflict with 
Constitution void 488 

may allow an encampment to 
change its place of meeting. 489 

cannot authorize an encamp- 
ment to remove from one 
town to another 490 

G. E. Constitution may in- 
crease his power as to re- 
moval of encampments 490 

cannot grant dispensation to 
change meeting nights of en- 
campment 491 

cannot suspend an encampment 
without local laws so provide 492 

may inderdict any public display 
of emblems 493 

may inderdict public display of 
working costumes 493 

Unless limited by local law, has 
general superintending au- 
thority, as incident to his 
office 493 

Duty of, to interpret local law. 494 



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Grand Patriarch — Continued 

may seek Grand Sire's opinion. 495 

which if given, is mandatory. . . 495 

has no jurisdiction when the 
law requires a mandatory 
duty of another officer 495 

Duties of, in respect to commit- 
tees 496 

cannot interfere with Committee 
on Election Returns 497 

must issue his mandate when 
final judgment is had in an 
appeal case 498 

Rights of, as ex officio member 
of committee 499 

removing from jurisdiction for- 
feits his office 500 

cannot refuse to sign regular 
certificate of election 506 

cannot pass upon the eligibility 
of Grand Representative- 
elect 506 

G. S. is the agent or clerk of. 517 

amenable to G. E. for his acts. 517 

is authorized to appoint a Rep- 
sentative to certain homes, 

519, 520, 521 

to instal Grand Officers-elect. . 540 

Jewel of, described 566 

cannot authorize removal of en- 
campment to another town . . . 591 

Consent of, to new meeting 
place must be obtained 592 

may permit a temporary re- 
moval of encampment when 
meeting place destroyed by 
fire 594 

has no authority to grant dis- 
pensation to encampment to 
suspend its meetings 596 

may grant dispensation to re- 
ceive proposition and perfect 
membership all in same even- 
ing 651 

duties of, in reference to change 
of name of encampment 665 

entitled to A. T. P. W 690 

can only communicate A. T. P. 
W. in discharge of his official 
duties 694 

and to persons entitled to re- 
ceive it 694 

issues semi-annual password... 704 

at installation may invite Can- 
ton to accompany him 732 

must wear regalia or jewel of 
office 732 

determines where special ses- 
sions shall be held 817 

to attend special sessions lim- 
ited 818 

has no authority to suspend en- 
campment unless local law so 
provides 827 



Grand Patriarch — Continued 

standing not affected by suspen- 
sion of his encampment..... 832 
may grant dispensation to en- 
campment to have yearly 

term 851 

Grand Representative 

Title must appear in card. 132 

Office of, how affected by with- 
drawal card 178 

Committee of Election Returns 
determines election and cer- 
tify to G. P 277 

entitled to G. E. Degree 341 

if not a P. C. P. no privileges 

obtained 341 

not a P. C. P. cannot visit G. E. 341 

Grand Honors to 481 

Qualifications for 501 

must reside in jurisdiction 502, 503 
Encampment of, must be in 

good standing 504 

Two, for Pennsylvania 505 

S. G. L. judge of contested 

claims for seats in that body. 506 
S. G. L. judge of qualifications 
of its members in the first 

instance 507 

S. G. L. may determine ques- 
tion of fact in reference to 

election of 508 

P. G. Representative not higher 
title than P. G. M. or P. G. 

P •. 509 

P. G. Representative is entitled 
to rank as such in every 
branch 510 

attending one session of S. G. 
L. is entitled to honors 511 

are requested to report only 
matters of general and Patri- 
archal law 512 

may instal Grand Officers 540 

Effect of suspension of encamp- 
ment of 886 

Effect of temporary "absence of. 887 

cannot introduce to an encamp- 
ment any one but a member 
of the Patriarchal Branch of 

the order , 912 

Grand Secretary 

should notify encampment of 
the suspension of a lodge .... 649 
Grand Scribe 

cannot deliver cards without 
order 133 

may deliver to representatives 
when 133 

attests defunct cards and certifi- 
cates 150 

to enter names of rejected, 
suspended and expelled per- 
sons in a book 246 

to print and circulate laws re- 
lating to lodge membership. . 513 



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133 



Grand Scribe — Continued 

to print in appendix to journal 
names of all committees of 
G. E 514 

to mail reports of Grand Offi- 
cers to proper legislative com- 
mittees 515 

to forward credentials of. Grand 
Representative-elect 516 

is the clerk or agent of the G. 

P 517 

must obey G. P. M^here his in- 
structions do not conflict with 
law S17 

not to traverse acts of G. P. .. 517 

Jewel of, described 573 

to receive A. T. P. W 693 

to prepare a general certificate 
for return of all P. C P.'s of 

encampments ; 718 

to receive one credential for 

Representative to G. E 796 

Expulsion of, for unlawful use 

of seal 814 

must attend special sessions lim- 
ited 818 

Grand Senior Warden 

Jewel of, described 571 

to attend special sessions in 
absence of G. P. or G. H. P.. 818 
"Grand Sire 

Questions of general law to be 

submitted to him by G. P... 313 
G. P. may seek opinion of, 

which if given is mandatory. 494 
cannot change time of G. E. 

meeting 615 

Grand Treasurer 

Jewel of, described 574 

Grips 

Speak one universal language . . 688 
Guard of Tent 

Jewel of, described 584 

Guide 

Jewel of, described 583 

Grand Sentinel 

Jewel of, described 575 

Hall 

Occupancy of a, by an encamp- 
ment makes it a, of the order 489 
Unless provided otherwise, G. 

E. meets in same hall 616 

Hall Associations 

G. E. may authorize 518 

using name of order is illegal. . 518 
This does not affect legitimate. 518 
Hazard 

Schemes of, are prohibited .... 589 
High Priest 

Jewel of, described 577 

Holidays 

Meetings may be omitted on 
regularly recognized holidays 600 
Homes 519 



Home for Orphans of Odd Fellows 
OF Pennsylvania 

Representative authorized 520 

Honors of Office 

P. C. P. can only be entitled to, 
by regular election and ser- 
vice 336 

Service as J. W. not necessary 
to honors of P. C. P 338 

of office of Past Grand Repre- 
sentative 511 

Result from service for a term. 522 

Service for part of a term de- 
fined - 522 

Majority of meeting nights de- 
fined 523 

Service interrupted by sickness. 524 

Service interrupted by govern- 
ment quarantine forbidding 
meetings 525 

Resignation forfeits honors but 
not salary 526 

Service for remainder of term 
defined 527 

Service interrupted by consoli- 
dation of encampment 528 

C. P. must serve until succes- 
sor installed 529 

Service interrupted by absence 
from the place of meeting. . . 530 

one year service of Grand Offi- 
cers for 531 

Withdrawal forfeits honors.... 532 

Attendance counts for, even 
though no meeting held 611 

Successor filling a vacancy en- 
titled to 846 

Officer filling vacancy created by 
forfeiture for non-attendance 

is entitled to 892 

Honors of Order 

Grand Representative or Elec- 
tive Grand Officer introducing 
a visiting Patriarch must 
make an official visitation. ... 911 
Ignorance 

when a defence 12 

III Health 

Encampment cannot refuse de- 
grees on account of, of Patri- 
arch 322 

Illegal Votes 

Members voting not qualified, 

ballot illegal 58 

Improper Conduct 533 

Incurable Sickness 

Encampment may provide for 

no benefits for 66 

Indigence 

not sickness 13 

Infirmities 

concealed at admission 85 

Funds of defunct encampment 
cannot be used to relieve one 
not aged, &c 317 



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INDEX 



Initiation Fees 

must be paid when transfer of 
membership is by method pro- 
viding for same without 
change of residence 869 

not paid, for transfer of mem- 
bership when there is a 

change of residence 870 

Inmates of Homes 

G. E. may provide for relin- 
quishment of benefits by 534 

G. E. may provide for good 
standing of .^ 535 

G. E. may provide for payment 
of benefits of, to the Home. . 536 

An inmate of the Masonic 
Home may be entitled to 

benefits 537 

Insane 

Payment of benefits for 538 

Patriarch cannot be suspended. 635 

Patriarch not entitled to pass- 
words 703 

Member cannot be suspended 
for N. P. D 845 

Patriarch, duty of encampment 
when question of fact as to 

who is wife 920 

Installation 

Special deputies appointed by 
D. D. G. P. not to receive 
Grand Honors 484, 485 

G. P. must have G. E. Degree 
prior to 486 

C. P. must serve until, of suc- 
cessor 529 

No, by proxy 539 

When Grand Representative 
may instal Grand Officers 540 

D. D. G. P. cannot wear R. P. 
Degree uniform at 541 

D. D. G. P. cannot wear P. M. 
uniform unless accompanied 
by an escort 542 

D. D. G. P. wearing P. M. uni- 
form at, must also wear jewel 542 

Special deputy for, must be a 
P.C.P 543 

Judicial powers of an installing 
officer defined 544 

Charges pending do not prevent, 
of officer-elect 544 

Absence of officer-elect at, an 
election may be held as for a 
vacancy 545 

deferred if only one eligible in- 
stalling officer present 546 

Ceremonj'- of, must be that pre- 
sented by S. G. L. 547 

An appeal pending does not 
prevent 548 

A re-elected officer is subject to 
the same 549 

Form of commission to special 
D. D. G. P. for.. 550 



Installation — Continued 

of a disqualified Patriarch is 
null and void 551 

Good standing at time of, is re- 
quired 552 

Admission may be refused dur- 
ing 614 

Questions propounded at, im- 
pose duties on officers 675 

Form to be followed when C. 
P.-elect does not appear for. 678 

no, unless reports, returns and 
per capita tax paid and for- 
warded 706 

G. P. or D. D. G. P., may invite 
Canton to accompany him at. 732 

He must wear regalia or jewel 
of office 732 

G. E. must enforce adherence 
to forms of, prescribed by 
S. G. L. 754 

R. P. Degree uniform not to be 
worn at 883 

Failure to appear for, creates 

a vacancy 890 

Institution 

Special deputy for, in encamp- 
ment 265 

When deputy for, fulfils his 
duty 553 

At, G. P. opens an encampment 
in R. P. Degree 554 

Degrees may be conferred at. . 555 

On night of, may elect and ad- 
mit applicant 555 

When not legal to admit as 
charter members other than 
card members 556 

Instituting officer may confer 
degrees in locality where no 
other encampment exists. . . , . 557 

Meaning of words sufficient 
number 557 

Encampment liable for per cap- 
ita tax at end of term of 73^ 

Special terms for officers of 
new instituted encampment.. 847 

Grand Officer holding with- 
drawal card cannot act at . . . 889 
Insubordination 

of encampment just cause for 

suspension 826 

Insurance 

Funeal benefits are not 103 

Illegal for, company to use 
name of order 558 

But not illegal to use the name 
Odd Fellows 559 

Solicitation of, in encampment 

is forbidden 559 

Interpretation 

of local law viii 

Intoxicating Liquors 

None of any kind to be offered 
to guests 430 



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Intoxicating Liquors — Continued 

None at entertainments, &c 430 

Investigating Committee 

C. P. appoints 560 

Report of, is received without 

motion 561 

Upon report of, being made, 

ballot must be taken 561 

G. P. may grant dispensation to 
receive and act on report on 

night of appointment 651 

to sign proposition book 739 

Member of, may authorize an- 
other to sign for him 739 

cannot report on night of ap- 
pointment 739 

For readmission to encampment 750 
Irregularities of Law 

How healed vi 

Jewel 

G. E. and encampment must 

furnish officers with 562 

All officers of encampment must 

wear 563 

Must not be wrought in regalia 564 
of all the Grand and subordi- 
nate officers 565-585 

G. P. or D. D. G. P. installing 
in P. M. uniform must wear 
regalia or jewel of office. 542, 732 
Officers of G. E. must wear, and 

ribbon or regalia 758 

Encampment cannot use, in lieu 

of prescribed regalia 763 

Judicial Powers 

of installing officer defined... 544 
Judiciary Committee 

to receive copy of reports prior 

to annual session 515 

Junior Warden 

Jewel of, described 579 

may preside in absence of C. P. 

and S. W 681 

Better to have P. C. P. preside. 682 
performing duties of S. W. 

does not become P. S. W. . . 683 
not to accept password unless 

Patriarch in regalia 762 

Jurisdiction 

of S, G. L. over general law . . vi 

of G. E. over local law vi 

Jurisdiction of G. E. 

Violations of vi 

regulates appeals yii 

Construction of viii 

Interpretation of viii 

Grand Encampment supreme, viii 
Grand Patriarch, when supreme viii 

may control a ballot 60 

governs benefits 65 

does not permit encampment to 
pay a nominal funeral benefit. 98 

governs By-laws 117 

Decisions are to be submitted 
to G. E 313 



Jurisdiction of G. E. — Continued 

may regulate number of degrees 
to be conferred in one even- 
ing 327 

supreme for enactments of G.E. 460 

Interpretation of local law 
vested in G. P 463, 494 

Reinstatement now a subject of 77s 

may vest G. P. with authority 
to suspend encampment. .492, 827 
Justification 

Proof of must be allowed by 

Trial Committee 247 

Language 

Proceedings and ceremonies 
may be in any, into which the 
ritual has been translated.. 586 

Records may be kept in, in 
which encampment is work- 
ing 587 

But transcript thereof must be 
in English 587 

Passwords in English 586,689 

Passwords speak one universal 688 
Lectures 

G. E. must enforce adherence 
to those presented by S. G. L. 754 
Ledger 

Encampment must have a 753 

Liquors 

Spirituous, vinous and malt, 
must be excluded from build- 
in which encampment meets. 588 
Livelihood 

Occupation must be such as will 
afford a, or a sum equal to 

the benefits 86 

Living Person 

Name of, cannot be name of en- 
campment 662 

Loans 

Encampment cannot loan to a 
lodge partly composed Of Pa- 
triarchs 445 

Encampment may loan to a 
member of the order not a 

Patriarch 446 

Lodge 

To, belongs duty of paying 
benefits 65 

Member of, may be granted re- 
lief 110 

Charges and trial in, for offence 
in encampment 196 

cannot challenge its own min- 
utes 234 

Encampment regalia may be 
worn in a 768 

but not while occupying the 
station of an office 7^ 

nor when encampment member- 
ship has been lost 769 

Encampment regalia may be 
used in, procession 772 



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Lodge — Continued 

Location of, has no bearing 
upon jurisdiction of encamp- 
ment to admit a brother 797 

Lodge Membership 

Certificate of ... 182 

How obtained 182 

Form of 183, 184 

Official certificate sufficient 185 

No certificate for unworthy- 
persons 186 

Brother with lodge withdrawal 
card not proper petitioner for 
encampment charter 260 

Patriarch suspended in lodge 
may retain membership and 
good standing in encampment 
for one year by paying his 
dues 384 

Illegal to confer encampment 
membership on holder of 
lodge withdrawal card 627 

Regaining, after one year, does 
not restore in encampment... 632 

Encampment membership de- 
pendent upon 620-649 

Lodge Room 

Encampment is not required to 
meet in a 592 

Nor can it go to a, to confer 
degrees upon the member of 

the lodge meeting there 593 

Lotteries 

are prohibited 589 

Majority 

of meeting nights, defined 853 

Mandate 

G. P. must issue, for final judg- 
ment in appeal cases 498 

Encampment must comply with, 
of G. P. before it can appeal. 590 
Mandatory 

Where the law is, it must be 

executed 495 

Mandatory Duty 

G. P. cannot interfere where the 
law requires of an officer the 

performance of a 495 

Meeting 

G. P. may issue dispensation to 
encampment to change place 
of 489 

Board of Grand Officers may 
permit encampment to change 
place of 489 

But not to remove from town 
of 490 

G. P. cannot issue dispensation 
to dispense with, of encamp- 
ment 491 

of Subordinate Encampment... 595 

of encampment must be semi- 
monthly . 595 

G. E. may permit monthly 595 

Dispensation to suspend, is void 596 



Meeting — Continued 

of encampment must be a week 
day 597 

of encampment must be on 
specified day of week 597 

No, on Sundays except for 
funerals 598 

on holidays may be omitted. .. . 600 

Adjourned, not legal 601 

Special, may be held 601 

No business to be transacted at, 
after 12 o'clock midnight.... 602 

Order of business at, is ob- 
ligatory 603 

C. P. should see that quorum 
remain at 603 

should be protected against in- 
trusion 604 

Chairs to be filled when only a 
quorum is present at a, is gov- 
erned by conditions 604 

Roll call at 605, 606, 607 

An officer present at a, is en- 
titled to credit for service... 607 

Failure of a quorum at, no 
meeting can be held 608 

To attend a. Patriarch must 
have R. P. Degree 608 

Ante-room is part of encamp- 
ment room 608 

Password only admits to ante- 
room in degree Patriarch has 
attained 608 

Regalia must be worn at, a 
street uniform is not regalia. 609 

R. P. Degree uniform is not a 
regalia, entitling Patriarch to 
admission to 61G 

Officer's attendance at, counts 
although no quorum present. 611 

S. W. may be placed in charge 
of door 612 

No admission to a, except by 
usual formalities 613 

Admission can be refused only 
while degrees are being con- 
ferred and during installation 614 

of Grand Encampment 615 

Grand Sire cannot change date 
of, of G. E 615 

Constitution fixes date of, of 
G. E 615 

in same hall as last session un- 
less otherwise provided 616 

Representative must attend, to 
have right as such 617 

Only one annual, of G. E. in 

one calendar year 618 

Meeting Place 

G. P. cannot authorize encamp- 
ment to remove, to another 
town 591 

of encampment need not be in a 
lodge room 592 

must be approved before used. 592 



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Meeting Place — Continued 

Encampment cannot go to an- 
other town to meet to confer 
degrees on its own members 593 
may be temporarily removed 
when old hall destroyed by 

fire 594 

Member of G. E. 

may appeal to S. G. L. without 

consent 30 

may appeal to S. G. L. in matter 

of personal interest 31 

Members 

Donations to, to parade illegal. 44 

Accounts of, to be audited 51 

cannot vote by ballot unless 

qualified 58 

Membership 

How obtained by non-resident. i 
Election to, without proposition 

fee 6 

Application for 41 

Failure of satisfactory proof of 

former membership 41 

on certificate of resignation .... 42 
Application for, rejected card 

returned 43 

Card in date evidence of 136 

Official certificate in date evi- 
dence of 136 

may be obtained on defunct card 

and certificate 137 

of defunct encampment to ob- 
tain certificate 270 

Qualifications for 619 

By-laws cannot regulate admis- 
sions to 619 

dependent upon full lodge mem- 
bership 620 

Lodge must be in good standing 620 
Certificate of lodge membership 

to accompany proposition for 621 
Unlawful to refuse certificate.. 622 
No vote of lodge necessary for 

certificate of 623 

Secretary notifies encampment 
of withdrawal, suspension or 

expulsion of Patriarch 624 

Encampment must be notified of 
reinstatement of expelled Pa- 
triarch 625 

Resident may be admitted to, 
although member of lodge in 

another jurisdiction 626 

Illegal to confer upon Brother 

holding withdrawal card. . . . 627 
Patriarch taking withdrawal 
card in lodge member of en- 
campment one year 628 

provided he keeps his dues paid 628 
Suspension by lodge for N. P. 
D. does not affect encamp- 
ment, for one year 629 

provided under no disability in 
encampment 629 



Membership — Continued 

Live withdrawal card deposited 
with Grand Secretary on ap- 
plication for charter main- 
tains encampment 630 

Encampment may obtain in any 
legal way knowledge of sta- 
tus of Patriarch's lodge mem- 
bership 631 

Regaining membership in lodge 
after one year does not re- 
store to encampment 632 

Encampment may withhold 
benefit while it investigates 
status of Patriarch's lodge 
membership 633 

Patriarch suspended for N. 
P. D. in lodge suspends en- 
campment, at end of one year 634 

Patriarch reinstated in lodge 
is reinstated in encampment. 634 

should be noted on books as re- 
instated at next meeting 634 

Dues must be paid on reinstate- 
ment to encampment 634 

Insane Patriarch cannot be sus- 
pended from 635 

Financial standing in lodge can- 
not affect, in encampment... 636 

A temporary abeyance of bene- 
ficial standing in lodge will 
not affect, in encampment... 6^7 

Patriarch in arrears may be sus- 
pended from, in encampment 
irrespective of standing in 
lodge 638 

in defunct lodge aged brother 
may retain, in encampment by 
obtaining G. L. card 639 

in defunct lodge Patriarch re- 
tians, in encampment for i year 640 

Patriarch under suspension for 
definite time in lodge is re- 
stored in encampment upon 
expiration of period 641 

Encampment may sever, after 
charges and trial for same 
offence 641 

Member suspended by lodge 
must pay dues in encampment 
to retain 642 

An expelled member cannot pay 
dues in encampment, hence 
cannot retain 642 

Patriarch suspended for ^ cause 
in lodge cannot visit in en- 
campment 643 

It is an oft'ence for him to do 
so even on a card 643 

Expulsion severs, entirely 644 

An appeal is not a supersedeas, 
judgment of lodge or encamp- 
ment stands until order of G. 
E. or S. G. L. reaches lodge 
or encampment 644 



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Membership — Continued 

An appeal to S. G. L. gives no 
additional rights as to mem- 
bership than that conferred 
by G. E. Constitution 645 

dues cannot be charged P. dur- 
ing suspension of his lodge. 647 

Suspension of lodge suspends 
encampment membership. 646-648 

Suspension of lodge suspends 
office as well as membership 
of Patriarch 648 

How suspension of lodge affects 
all Patriarch members thereof 648 

Grand Secretary should notify 
encampment when lodge is 
suspended 649 

determined by ballot 650 

G. E. may fix number of black 
balls to reject, also manner. 650 

Election to 650 

The election cannot be had the 
same night as proposition is 
received 651 

Grand Patriarch may grant a 
dispensation to receive a prop- 
osition and complete the mem- 
bership all in one evening. . . . 651 

dues begin from the receipt of 
the Patriarchal Degree 652 

by card dues ^ begin from the 
time of signing the Constitu- 
tion . . 653 

A Patriarch cannot be readmit- 
ted to membership except in 
the regular way 654 

A By-law providing for admis- 
sion to, in a different way 
than prescribed by S. G. L. is 
illegal 655 

A Patriarch withdrawing from, 
to start a new encampment 
cannot be readmitted except 
in the regular way 655 

Members of defunct encamp- 
ments admitted as non-bene- 
ficial members 656 

Classes of 656 

No honorary membership by 
initation 6^7 

nor as non-beneficial, except in a 
non-beneficial encampment... 658 

Non-affiliated Odd Fellows may 
be admitted as non-beneficial 
members 659 

Non-contributing members pro- 
vided for 660 

in only one encampment 661 

Rights of, not affected by 
change of name of encamp- 
ment 665 

Patriarch entitled to visit 
his own encampment until 
dropped, suspended or ex- 
pelled 707 



Membership — Continued 

Effect of, in another jurisdic- 
tion on right to check pass- 
word 708 

in G. E. qualifies for, in any 
other G. E 715 

Qualifications for, in Patriarchs 
Militant 724 

Scribe to notify Canton of ter- 
mination of Chevaliers, in en- 
campment 728 

Readmission to, follows same 
procedure as for original .... 750 

Residence is a primary condi- 
tion to, in an encampment. . 797 

Petitioners for restoration of 
charter not present at reor- 
ganization are not members . . 805 

No saloonkeeper, bartender or 
professional gambler eligible 
to membership in order .... 810 

But if members of a lodge, they 

may join encampment 810 

Memorial Petition 34 

Merger 

of encampments effect of 288 

Minimum Benefits 

Encampment may provide for 
cessation of benefits 66 

Encampment may provide for 
no benefit for chronic sick- 
ness 66 

Law does not apply to encamp- 
ment 67 

G. E. may provide for no bene- 
fits 68 

Benefits may be reduced after a 
stipulated amount has been 

received 82 

Minority 

Law regulating consolidation of 
encampment secondary to law 

protecting 287 

Minority Report 

of Relief Committee may be 

acted on 784 

Minute Book 

Encampment must have a 753 

Minutes 

Charges to be entered in full 
upon 208 

to be kept by Trial Committee. 229 

Report of Trial Committee en- 
tered in full upon 238 

must show reason for failure to 
meet for want of a quorum. . 606 

Members have right to be desig- 
nated in, by highest rank in 

the order 765 

Misrepresentation 

of age II 

Monthly 

G. E. may authorize, meetings 
of encampment 595 



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Motion 

C P. cannot refuse to put 676 

When F. W. may put a 677 

Music 

Appropriation for, at funeral 

illegal 47 

Name 

of encampment not to be of 

living person 662 

and numbers of extinct encamp- 
ments may be used 663 

Encampment cannot change, 

except in lawful way 664 

Uniform not part of, of encamp- 
ment 664 

Method of changing, of encamp- 
ment 665 

Change of, does not affect mem- 
bership 665 

Band cannot use, P. M 666 

Name of the Order 

Effect of permission granted to 

use 738 

Unauthorized use of, is strictly 

forbidden 770 

Nominations 

for Grand Junior Warden, how 

made 66y 

Non-Beneficial Encampment 

may pay funeral benefit 99 

Funds contributed while bene- 
ficial remain trust funds .... 449 
Funds of encampment becom- 
ing, remain trust funds 669 

G. E. may legislate to make. . 670 
Non-Beneficial Member 

A nominal funeral benefit to, 

illegal 98 

Provisions for 656-659 

Encampment cannot initiate, 
unless encampment non-bene- 
ficial 668 

Per capita tax collectable for.. 737 
Non-Contributing Members 

Provisions for 660 

No per capita tax collected for. 737 
Non-Resident 

How membership obtained by. . i 

Fees for admission of 10 

Witness, deposition of 227 

Notice 

of hearing on appeal 23 

of sickness, sent to Scribe.... 92 

of charges and trial 194 

to constitute contempt, must 

appear on the record 195 

Manner of service of 216 

Form of, for witness 221 

Form of, for penalty imposed 

after charges and trial 244 

Form of, to encampment of 

appeal 250 

Proof of service of, of appeal. 253 

may be personal^ 671 

Duty of Scribe in, defined .... 671 



Notice — Continued 

to lodge is from Scribe 684 

of sickness to Relief Committee 783 

Suspension of member for N. 

P. D. cannot legally take 

place until he has had legal 

notice of the contemplated 

action of encampment 839 

Member must have one month's 
notice of encampment's inten- 
tion to suspend him for N. 

P. D 840 

One, is sufficient even though 
dues are paid on account . . . 842 
Number 

of defunct encampment may 
be used by new encampment. 663 
Nurse 

Sacred duty to nurse sick Pa- 
triarchs 72 

Method of providing controlled 

by encampment 72 

may levy assessment for 72 

may charge dues for 72 

may draft for 72 

Funds for, to be kept separate. 72 
may fine for neglect to act as ... . 73 
Beneficial standing not requisite 

for 74 

Compensation allowed nurses to 
be indorsed on visiting cards. 108 
Obligation 

cannot take place of dramatic 
portion of degrees and lec- 
tures 328 

cannot be administered by one 

who has not received it 543 

a test, is not part of the ex- 
amination of a visiting Patri- 
arch 910 

Occupation 

must be such as will aft'ord a 
livelihood or sum equal to the 

benefits 86 

Offense 

must be such as within cogniz- 
ance of encampment 201 

Office 

Suspension of lodge suspends 
an office held by a Patriarch 

in encampment 648 

Officers 

right to re-elect subject to con- 
trol of G. E 409 

of Subordinate Encampment. . 672 

Duties of subordinate 673 

Executive, of encampment 674 

Installation ceremony of, im- 
poses duties 675 

C. P. cannot refuse to put ques- 
tion 676 

When F. W. may put motion . . 677 
Installation of, when C. P. elect 
does not appear for installa- 
tion 678 



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INDEX 



Officers — Continued 

S. W. preside in absence of C. 

P 679 

Not compulsory to advance S. 
W 680 

J. W. may preside in absence 
of C P. and S. W 681 

Would be better to have P. 
C. P. preside 682 

J. W. performing duties of S. 
W. does not become a P. 
S. W 683 

Scribes are required to notify 
lodges of admission of their 
members 684 

must occupy station during a 
recess 751 

must wear regalia of their office 
while performing the duties 
thereof 767 

signatures must be on reports. 787 

elect are returned on a separate 
schedule 790 

of encampment not to receive 
salary 809 

except Scribe and Treasurer... 809 

not to sign charts 822 

Terms of 846, 847 

Trustee is not an, of an en- 
campment 857 

Official Certificate 

in date, evidence of member- 
ship 136 

does not displace visiting card. 161 

not an order for benefits 161 

Color varied to indicate branch 

of order 162 

Purple color for encampment. 162 
A. T. P. W. communicated on 163 
Semi-annual password com- 
municated on 163 

Password communicated only 

on identification 164 

No fee to be charged for 165 

Advantages of 166 

for dues paid in advance does 
not relieve from payment of 

increased dues 367 

like a card showing dues paid 
in advance, makes Patriarch 
beneficial for 13 weeks after 

its expiration 383 

only legal receipt for dues. 161, 395 
Encampments are required to 

use 396 

Patriarch may demand 397 

Unlawful to issue any other re- 
ceipt 401, 398 

Unlawful to accept any other 

receipt 399 

A written order for a receipt is 

illegal 400 

Scribe must sign in his own 
handwriting 402 



Official Certificate — Continued 
The kind of payment makes no 
difference as to the receipt to 

be issued 403 

An order for the proper pass- 
word 163, 169, 698 

may be used in lieu of visiting 

card to transfer membership. 868 
Holder of, may visit same as 

visiting card 896 

Must show dues paid to a later 
date to permit visitation 

on 900,901 

Official Position 

will not condone improper con- 
duct 533 

Official Visitation 

Grand Representative or elec- 
tive Grand Officer introducing 
a visiting Patriarch must 

make an 911 

Opening 

Ceremonies incident thereto de- 
scribed 762 

Order of Business 

is obligatory 603 

Orphans' Homes 

G. E. may authorize 518 

When widows' and orphans' 
fund of encampment may be 

used for benefit of 919 

Parade 

Donations to members to parade 

illegal 44 

Paraphernalia 

cannot be used in public 685 

Photographs of, illegal 686 

Costumes form part of the.... 687 
is not included in the term re- 
galia 771 

Parliamentary Rules 

G. E. is not bound by incon- 
sistency 466 

G. E. must observe usual 468 

Part Benefits 

not allowed 15 

Parties 

None without permission 430 

Password 

Official certificate order for. . 163 
communicated only on identifi- 
cation 164 

Visiting card in date an order 

for 169 

Withdrawal card not an order 

for 177 

must be in English 586 

only admits to ante-room at 

proper time 608 

General provisions concerning. 688 
Speak one universal language. . 688 

to be spoken in English 689 

Annual travelling 690 

Purpose of the A. T. P. W... 690 



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Password — Continued 

Who are to be in possession of 
the A. T. P. W 690 

A. T. P. W. test of travelling 
Brothers 691 

A. T. P. W. changed annually. 692 

A. T. P. W. communicated to 
Grand Scribe 693 

G. P. can only communicate A. 
T. P. W. in discharge of 
official duty 694 

C. P. and S. W. to receive A. 
T. P. W 695 

Absent Brother obtaining a final 
or visiting card to receive an 
order for A. T. P. W 696 

Form of order for A. T. P. W. 697 

Official certificate an order for 
A. T. P. W 698 

Holder must be identified and 
prove himself 698 

A. T. P. W. of the date of 
the card 699 

A. T. P. W. to be given that 
is in force 700 

Patriarch not in advance for 
dues cannot receive A. T. 
P. W 701 

nor if dues paid to date 702 

Insane Patriarch not entitled to 
A. T. P. W 703 

Semi-annual or term 704 

G. P. determines check 704 

is communicated to D. D. G. P. 704 

Check password is to be com- 
municated to C. P. and S. W. 704 

G. E. may change quarterly. . 705 

not communicated unless the re- 
ports, returns and per capita 
tax made and paid 706 

Patriarch must be in good 
standing to receive 707 

Good standing for, defined 707 

When check, to be communi- 
cated to member of lodge in 
another jurisdiction 708 

But one, in force at same time. 709 

to be communicated to Patri- 
arch receiving Patriarchal De- 
gree or to one receiving Pa- 
triarchal and Golden Rule 
Degrees 710 

Dues paid to last night of quar- 
ter entitled to 71 1 

not to be accepted at opening 
unless Patriarch clothed in 
regalia 762 

Visiting Patriarch must have A. 
T. P. W 895 

Unless introduced by elective 
Grand Officer or Grand Rep- 
resentative 895 

Holder of dismissal certificate 
does not receive A. T. P. W.. 895 



Password — Continued 

None is to be required by en- 
campment of visiting Patri- 
arch introduced by Grand 
Representative or elective 

Grand Officer 913 

Past Chief Patriarch 

Honors of, can only be obtained 
by regular election and ser- 
vice 336 

Service as J. W. not necessary 
to honors of P. C. P. 338 

G. E. may require all its mem- 
bers to be 470 

Form of, certificate 712 

Rights of 713 

Rank in one State recognized in 
another 714 

Membership in one G. E. quali- 
fies for membership in any 
other 715 

G. E. cannot declare P. H. P. a 
P. C. P 471, 716 

P. H. P. cannot wear P. C. P. 
regalia _. . 717 

Grand Scribe to prepare a gen- 
eral certificate for P. C. P,s. 718 

G. E. may be organized of, 
alone or with P. H. P.s 719 

must produce a proper certifi- 
cate before he can be admit- 
ted to G. E 720 

Form of transfer certificate. . . . 721 

who is also a P. G. regalia 
described 761 

may wear regalia of, although 
not a member of G. E 764 

has vested right to vote for 
G. E. officers 794 

may be admitted to G. E. at 
special session 816 

may attend special sessions of 

G. E 819 

Past District Deputy Grand Patri- 
arch 

Jewel of, described 568 

Past Grand 

Who is P. C. P. regalia of, de- 
scribed 761 

Past Grand Master 

Rank of 509 

Title may be used in encamp- 
ment and G. E 759, 765 

Past Grand Patriarch 

rank of 509 

may instal Grand Officers-elect. 540 

Jewel of, described 565 

Portraits of, to appear in printed 
journal ^ 742 

Regalia of, described 755 

Past Grand Representative 

Rank of 509, 510 

Past High Priest 

G. E. may be composed of, and 
P. C. P. s ...^..... 719 



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Past High Priest — Continued 

G. E. cannot declare a, a P. C. 
P 716 

cannot wear regalia of a P. C. 
P 717 

Regalia of, described . « 756 

Past Official Degrees 

There are none in G. E 334 

Patriarchal Law 

Code of i 

Patriarchs 

Appeals for aid for relief of . . . . 40 
Patriarchs Militant 

Installing officers may wear 
uniform of, if accompanied 
by an escort 542 

only military branch of order. 722 

a side degree 723 

Qualification for membership in 
the 724 

Chevalier member of defunct 
encampment 724 

Chevalier taking withdrawal 
card 725 

Scribe of encampment to keep 
roll of Chevaliers 726 

Suspension in lodge suspends 
Chevalier 727 

Staff of suspended officer, cease 
to act as such, unless retained 
by special order 727 

Scribe to notify Canton of ter- 
mination of Chevalier's mem- 
bership in encampment 728 

C. P. and Scribe to indorse ap- 
plication for charter of a Can- 
ton 729 

Uniform of, a regalia. 730 

Chevalier in uniform cannot oc- 
cupy an office in encampment 730 

Chevalier in uniform may visit 
his own encampment 731 

G. P. or D. D. G. P. at installa- 
tion may invite Canton to 
accompany him 732 

Escort may wear, uniform 732 

Installing officer must also wear 
regalia or jewel of his office. 732 

Uniform of, to be a regalia, 
must be full dress or undress 733 

Chevalier in uniform visiting 
lodge or encampment need 
not wear usual regalia in ad- 
dition 734 

Chevalier must change uniform 
before occupying an official 

position in encampment 735 

Pecuniary Aid 

not receivable on official certifi- 
cate 161 

Penalty 

for admitting citizen of another 
State, district or territory 
without permission 2 

for misrepresentation as to age. 11 



Penalty — Continued 

Extenuating circumstances 12 

Encampment can only expel 
from encampment 189 

If accused found guilty by en- 
campment penalty must be 
imposed 242 

Highest, to be voted on first. . 243 

Motion to fix, to be treated as a 
blank 243 

Vote on a, precludes greater be- 
ing imposed 248 

for neglect of encampment to 
perfect an appeal to G. E. . . 255 

Excessive punishment 431 

for diversion of encampment 
funds 442 

for diversion of G. E. funds.. 442 

for violating laws relating to 
territorial jurisdiction of en- 
encampment 863 

Pennsylvania Day 

June 19, anniversary 20 

Per Capita Tax 

must be paid by encampment 
before installation or pass- 
word communicated 706 

Encampment liable for, at end 
of term of institution 736 

to be paid for non-beneficial 
members y^y 

not to be paid for non-contrib- 
uting members 660,737 

must be in before installation. 789 
Permission Granted 

Effect of 738 

No intoxicating liquors 738 

No processions without 743 

Regalia in public 770 

Processions forbidden unless. . 770 

Use of emblems forbidden un- 
less 770 

Publication of calls for public 

occasion forbidden unless 770 

Permission 

necessary for citizen of another 
State, district or territory to 
be admitted to membership. , . i 

How obtained 2 

Petition 

Memorial 34 

Petitioners 

for charter 256-262 

for encampment may be quali- 
fied by instituting officer. 555-557 

must be holders of withdrawal 
cards 557 

for charter, cannot rejoin old 
encampment except as new 
members 655 

By-laws cannot provide other- 
wise 655 

for restoration of charter.. 800-805 
Photographs 

of paraphernalia illegal 686 



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Photographs — Continued 

of P. G. P.s to appear in printed 

journal 741 

Physician 

Certificate of, to be obtained to 

prove relief granted , 109 

Picnic 

None without permission 430 

Pleadings 

Before Trial Committee 219 

Portraits 

of P. G. P.s to appear in printed 

Journal 741 

Postal Cards 

Use of, prohibited 740 

Powers of 

D. D. G. P..- 349, 352 

Grand Officers prescribed by 

charge book 487 

G. P. defined 487 

Precedence 

at funerals 450, 452 

Encampment has, in processions 
unless in behalf of a single 

lodge 744 

Printing Committee 282 

Proceedings 

of S. G. L. are a sufficient notice 

of acts of that body 741 

Procedure 

on appeal 22 

in appeals, want of agreement. . 28 
Processions 

encampment has precedence in. 744 
unless, is in behalf of a single 

lodge ;••.••••.• 744 

prohibited unless permission is 

obtained 743, 770 

of Patriarchs general regula- 
tions concerning 878 

Proclamation 

Suspension of an encampment 

must be proclaimed 830 

Duty of Grand Officers to make 

such 831 

Professional Gambler 

not eligible to lodge member- 
ship 810 

member of a lodge, may join 

encampment 810 

Property 

of defunct encampment belongs 

to G. E 269 

member interested disqualified 
from voting on questions 

affecting 917 

Proposition Book 

to be kept by encampment 739 

encampment must have a 753 

Proposition Fee 6 

Proposition for Membership 

accompanied by dismissal cer- 
tificate 151 



Proposition for Membership — Cont. 
Upon a, being made C. P. must 
appoint Investigating Com- 
mittee 560 

Proposition Book to be kept.. 739 
Report of Investigating Com- 
mittee on 739 

for readmission to encampment, 750 
not applicable to a transfer of 

membership 873 

a petition must be presented set- 
ting forth all the necessary 

facts 874 

Protest 

Member has right to, in en- 
campment 745 

P. C. P. may, in G. E 745 

Proxy 

No installation by 539 

Public 

Paraphernalia cannot be ex- 
posed to the 685 

Publications 

calling for a public procession 
without permission being ob- 
tained illegal 770 

Public Display 

of emblems, or working cos- 
tumes, may be interdicted by 

G. P 493, 685, 743 

Public Holiday 

Effect of permission granted to 

appear on 738 

Public Installation 

Regulations concerning ....746-748 
Published 

Suspension of an encampment 

may be 830 

Punishment 

No, without charges and trial. . 187 

Excessive 431 

Qualifications 

for Grand Representative. ..... 501 

S. G. L. judge of, of its 

members 507 

for membership in encampments 619 
Quarantine 

Effect of government, on honors 

of office 525 

Questions 

to be submitted to G. P ii 

encampment cannot present, di- 
rect to S. G. L. or Grand Sire vii 
Question Book 

must be used in the examination 
of candidates for admission to 

encampment 749 

Encampment must have a 753 

Quorum 

should not be broken by mem- 
bers retiring 603 

C. P. has authority to refuse 
permission to retire when a, 
will not remain 603 



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Quorum — Continued 

No meeting for want of, reason 
to be noted on minutes 606 

It is duty of officers to see that 
a, attends 611 

at special sessions limited 8i8 

must be present although not 
voting to legalize any vote of 

the encampment 916 

Raffles 

are prohibited 589 

Rank 

Cards must show highest rank. . 131 

Dismissal certificate shall show 
highest degree and rank .... 153 

Past officers cannot be deprived 
of, because they are not 
members of G. L. or G. E. . 344 

of Past Grand Representative, 

509, 510 

of Past Grand Master 509 

a Past Chief Patriarch in one 
State recognized as such in all 
other 714 

Members of G. E. may wear 
regalia of highest, attained.. 759 

Members should wear in en- 
campment regalia of highest, 

attained 765, 766 

Readmission 

to membership is governed by 
same rules as admission. .654, 655 

By-laws cannot provide other- 
wise 654 

The law applies to those who 
withdraw to start a new en- 
campment 655 

to membership same procedure 
must be followed as for orig- 
inal membership 750 

Rebekah Home 

Representative authorized 521 

When widows' and orphans' 
fund of encampment may be 

used for benefit of 919 

Receipts 

for dues 161, 395 

Recess of Grand Encampment 

Grand Patriarch Chief executive 
officer during ix 

Duties of officers and members 

during 751 

Reconsideration 

Action taken may be reconsid- 
ered 752 

There can be no legal, of a sus- 
pension of a member for N. 
P. D 843 

Reinstatement is the only 
method for him to regain 

membership 843 

Recovery 

What period of working 
amounts to a complete 83 



Records of Subordinates 

Necessary books described . 753 

Records 

may be kept in language in 
which encampment is work- 

^ing 587 

But transcripts must be in 

English 587 

Reduced Benefits 

may be determined by amount 

received 82 

Re-elected Officer 

must be installed 549 

Refund 

of admission fee unlawful 4 

Regalia 

Grand Sire's proclamation no 

authority to appear in, on 

anniversary day 18 

Grand Patriarch's permission 

necessary to appear in 18 

Encampment and lodge regalia 

must be kept distinct 115 

at funerals 453, 457 

Officers must also wear jewels, 

562, 563 
Jewels must not be wrought in. 564 
must be worn at a meeting of 

encampment 609 

A street uniform is not a 609 

R. P. Degree uniform is not a. . 610 
P. H. P. cannot wear, of a 

P. C. P 717 

Uniform of P. M. is a 730 

but not to be worn in official 

station 730 

G. P. or D. D. G. P. installing in 

P. M. uniform must wear 

regalia or jewel of office 732 

P. M. uniform to be regalia 

must be full dress or undress. 7S3 
Chevalier in uniform wears no 

other regalia 734 

Must change uniform before oc- 
cupying official station 735 

Effect of permission granted to 

appear in 738 

G. E. must enforce adherence to, 

presented by S. G. L 754 

of Past Grand Patriarchs de- 
scribed 755 

of Past High Priests described. 756 
In G. E. a ribbon may be worn 

in lieu of 757 

officers must wear ribbon and 

jewel 758 

Members may wear in G. E. 

regalia of highest degree 

taken 759 

Encampment regalia described. 760 
of Past Grand who is also a 

P. C P. described 761 

Password not to be accepted 

unless Patriarch clothed in. . 762 



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145 



Regalia — Continued 

Encampment cannot use jewels 
in lieu of 763 

P. C. P. may wear, although not 
a member of G. E. .......... 764 

Members may wear, indicative 
of highest rank in the Order. 765 

Members should wear, of high- 
est rank attained 766 

Officers can only wear the, of 
their office while occupying 
the station 767 

encampment, may be worn in 
lodge 768 

encampment, cannot be worn by 
lodge officer 768 

encampment, cannot be worn in 
lodge when encampment 
membership has been lost. .. . 769 

in public prohibited without 
permission obtained 430,770 

does not include paraphernalia. 771 

Encampment, may be used in 
lodge procession 772 

Suspended Patriarch cannot 
legally wear encampment.... 824 
Register of Members 

Encampment must have a 753 

Registered Letter 

Notice sent by scribe in 671 

Reinstatement 

Refusal of, of a suspended 
member dismissal certificate 
to be issued 154 

Refusal of reinstatement not a 
rejection 155 

of expelled members 432-436 

of Patriarch in lodge 625 

a matter of local law 8, 773 

all general laws are modified ac- 
cordingly 774 

of suspended member of de- 
funct encampment 775 

of member suspended by lodge 
for cause reinstates in en- 
campment 776 

There is no ceremony of 777 

Need not sign constitution upon, 778 

No probationary period before, 779 

A tie vote defeats an application 
for 780 

by recognition as a member. . 781 

is the only method by which a 
member suspended for N. P. 
D. can regain full membership 843 
Rejected 

card must be returned 43 

Refusal of reinstatement not a 
rejection 155 

Names of those, to be entered 
in G. E. book 246 

Suspension for N. P. D. is not 
a rejection, hence no proba- 
tionary period before rein- 
statement 779 

10 



Relief 

to traveling or sojourning Pa- 
triarch 107 

Character of attentive benefits 
endorsed on visiting cards... 108 

Regulations as to relief granted 
on card 109 

Encampment is bound by relief 
extended in accordance with 
indorsement on visiting card. 109 

Encampment may grant, to a 
brother not a Patriarch no 

endorsed on visiting card iii 

Relief Committee 

must pay dues of sick Patriarch 
before discharging him 366 

Patriarch discharged from care 
of, is beneficial for 13 weeks 
thereafter 381 

Trustee of beneficial insane 
brother ^ 538 

duty of, concerning insane.... 538 

Membership of 782 

Notice of, of sickness of Pa- 
triarch 783 

minority report of, may be re- 
ceived 784 

Reports of, unobjected to may 
constitute a member's claim 
for benefits 785 

Substitute members of the, may 

be appointed 786 

Report of Committee 

requiring action by G. E. no 
ground for appeal 27 

of Trial Committee 230, 237 

Reports 

Book of Abstract 52 

Term Auditing Committee's . .. 52 

The reading of a report consti- 
tuted its reception 467 

of Grand Representatives 512 

must be made by encampment 
before installation or pass- 
word is communicated 706 

must contain sisnatures of offi- 
cers of encampment 787 

G. E. is required to make laws 
to insure the proper returns to 

the S .G. L 788 

Return reports and per capital tax 
must be forwarded before in- 
stallation 789 

Cover the term then expiring. . 790 

A separate schedule is made for 
the officers elect 790 

Two reports, annual and semi- 
annual, fully described 791 

must include those who have 
only received the Patriarchal 

degree 792 

Representatives 

Dinner to, by G. E. illegal 45 

to certain homes autho- 
rized 519, 520, 521 



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Representatives — Continued 

to be entitled to privileg-es must 
attend annual session 617 

G. E. has right to establish 
system of representation. 713, 793 

Number of representatives gov- 
erned by constitution 794 

system does not deprive P. C. 
P.s of right to vote for Grand 
officers 794 

must be a member of encamp- 
ment represented 795 

form of credential for 79^ 

to be made in duplicate 79^ 

Residence 

When it must be nearest to en- 
campment in another State . . 3 

G. E. of, entitled to excess of 
admission fees 10 

in jurisdiction no necessary re- 
quirement to hold office in 
G. E ' 427 

of Grand Patriarch 500 

of Grand Representative ... 502, 503 

determines right to join en- 
campment 626 

in territorial jurisdiction of en- 
campment is a primary con- 
dition to membership 797 

Patriarchal degree must be con- 
ferred in encampment which 
brother joins 798 

Other degrees may be conferred 
by encampment near his resi- 
dence 79° 

as affecting the territorial juris- 
diction of an encampment 858-864 

as affecting right to transfer 
membership 865-877 

Resignation 

Membership on certificate of . . . 42 
upon refusal of withdrawal 

card 174 

must be free from all charges. . 174 

Certificate of I74 

forfeits honors but not salary, 

526, 532 

forfeits honors of office 611 

Good standing necessary to 799 

Restoration of Charter 

may be upon petition of five 
former members 800 

Petitioners for, must not be 
members of some other en- 
campment 800 

Form of petition for 801 

of suspended or expelled en- 
campment qualifications of 
petitioners for 802 

after 5 years, may be upon peti- 
tion of one or more former 
members 803 



Restoration of Charter — Continued 

No surrendered funds or effects 
to be returned upon, unless 
5 former members are peti- 
tioners for 803 

Charter fee must be paid upon, 803 

and likewise where 5 former 
members are petitioners 804 

Petitioners not present at re- 
organization are not members 805 
Return 

of Grand Lodge election 417 

A correct, cannot be substituted 
for an incorrect 418 

must be made by encampment 
before installation or pass- 
word is communicated 706 

must be in before installation 789 
Revenue 

Charter fee must be paid for a 
restoration of charter . . . .803, 804 

Supplies of S. G. L. source of, 820 
Reversionary Interest 

in G. E. of all assets of defunct 
encampment 314 

in trust for certain purposes . . . 315 

must be distributed according to 
the general law 316, 317 

subject to encampment debts. . . 318 
Ribbon 

may be worn in G. E. in lieu of 

regalia 757 

Ritual 

Language in which the, is pub- 
lished may be used in en- 
campment 586, 587 

Roll 

Officers late to report to scribe, 605 

Prima facia evidence of attend- 
ance 605 

Officers present, but no meeting 
held, entitled to be credited on 
roll book 606 

A, of chevaliers to be kept by 
scribe 726 

Encampment must have a roll 

book 753 

Royal Purple Degree Uniform 

Installing officers cannot wear, 541 

is not a regalia 610 

Rulings 

of Trial Committee may be ob- 
j ected to 240 

G. E. not bound by previous, in 

appeal cases 464 

Sacred Duty 

to nurse sick Patriarchs 72 

Salary 

Benefits improperly granted and 
received may be deducted 
from 94 

will not set off dues, and pre- 
vent arrears 385 

Resignation forfeits honors but 
not 526, 532 



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147 



Salary — Continued 

Fitting, of officers, under control 
of G. E 808 

No, for elective officers of en- 
campment 809 

except scribe and Treasurer... 809 
Saloon-keeper — Bartender 

Not eligible to membership in 
Order 810 

Duties of encampment and offi- 
cers with reference thereto. . 810 

member of a lodge a, may join 

encampment 810 

Satisfactory Evidence 

of former membership, when re- 
quired 149 

Schools 

G. E. may authorize 518 

Scribe 

Books of, to be audited 51 

Proper officer to receive notice 
of sickness 92 

must attest and seal cards 130 

and Chief Patriarch may issue 
visiting cards 168 

to attest charges, when 199 

Duties of, see Charges and 
Trial 

cannot be treasurer » 355 

not compelled to receive dues 
during recess 365 

receiving dues during recess 
credits same at next meeting, 365 

Jewel of, described 580 

One of the executive officers 
of an encampment 674 

to keep roll of chevaliers ..... 726 

to notify Canton of termination 
of Chevalier's membership in 
encampment 728 

to endorse application for new 
Canton 729 

may receive a salary 809 

Expulision for unlawful use of 
seal 814 

catinot make false credits and 
thereby evade liability to sus- 
pension for N. P. D. 844 

Local law may provide for 

yearly term of 856 

Seal 

Scribe must seal cards 130 

G. E. has a seal 811 

G. E. may use a printed seal.. 812 

Encampment may use a printed 
seal, if the adopted seal of en- 
campment 813 

Unlawful use of, punished by 

(expulsion 814 

Secretary 

Duty of, to furnish brother with 
certificate to join encamp- 
tnent 621 

It is unlawful to refuse 622 



Secretary — Con tinued 

must notify encampment of 
withdrawal, suspension or ex- 
pulsion of Patriarch 624 

Secret Records 

not to be exposed or used for 
evidence outside of encamp- 
ment 815 

Semi-Annual Password 

Withdrawal card not an order 
for 177 

may be communicated to a Pa- 
triarch holding an official 
certificate 698 

General provisions concerning, 

704-711 
Semi-Annual Reports 

See Reports. 
Semi-Monthly 

meetings of encampment must 

be held 595 

Senior Warden 

To be eligible to, requires ser- 
vice in some other elective or 

appointive office 425 

Jewel of, described 578 

may be placed in charge of door, 612 

presides in absence of C. P 679 

to receive A. T. P. W 695 

Semi-annual password to be 

communicated to 704 

to be a member of the Relief 

Committee 782 

Sentinels 

Jewel of, described 582 

Sick Benefits 

not demandable on official cer- 
tificates 161 

Sickness 

not age and indigence 14 

may be age, infirm and indigent, 14 
when subsequent to ballot may 

make it voidable 61 

subsequent to ballot to transfer 
membership does not make it 

voidable 62 

means ^ "whereby he may not 

obtain a livelihood " 80 

means that state of health which 
prevents one from attending 

to his ordinary vocation 83 

What period of working 
amounts to a complete re- 
covery 83 

What amount of work will evi- 
dence want of beneficial stand- 
ing 84 

Definition of 86 

Benefits begin from date of, 
unless By-laws provide other- 
wise 87 

First week's 95 

of officer to be an excuse must 
be excused by encampment. . 524 



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Sign 

Holder of card must ^ 130 

Signs 

Speak one universal language. . 688 
Solicitation 

of insurance in encampment is 

forbidden 559 

Sovereign Grand Lodge 

Exclusive jurisdiction on gen- 
eral law vi 

prescribes form of cards .... 130 

Cards not issued by, void 132 

not so with defunct certificates, 132 

Cards printed exclusively by... 135 

fixes eligibility to office 420 

G. E. possesses all powers and 
authority not expressly vested 
in 461 

prescribes ceremony of installa- 
tion 547 

Printed proceedings received by 
encampment sufficient notice 
of action of S. G. L 741 

has exclusive jurisdiction over 

the work of the Order 923 

Special Deputies 

appointed by D. D. G. P. not to 
receive grand honors 484, 485 

for installation must be a P. 
C.P 543 

for institution, rights and duties 

of 553, 557 

Special Five Per Cent. Fund 

Authorized by S. G. L 447 

Permitted by G. E 448 

Special Meetings 

may be held 601 

Special Sessions 

may be held to confer G. E. 
degree 335 

Grand Patriarch may call 335 

cannot be called to elect G. P . . 477 

G. E. may hold, to admit P. C. 
P.; confer G. E. degree, and 
give instructions in work of 
encampment 816 

may be held as often as G. P. 
may determine 817 

No other business to be trans- 
acted 817 

G. P., G. H. P. or G. S. W. 
and G. S. must attend 818 

Five P. C P.s members of G. E. 
constitute a quorum 818 

P. C. P.s from any part of State 
may attend 819 

Staff 

officer's commission expires by 
suspension of commanding 

officer ^2^ 

Unless retained by special order 
of superior commanding offi- 
cer 'J^'j 



State 

Citizen of, not admitted to 
membership outside of, with- 
out permission i 

Street Uniform 

is not a regalia 609 

Subordinate Constitution 

Requisite provisions for 297 

G. E. has power to adopt 298 

may regulate benefits 299 

may regulate conferring de- 
grees 299 

Subordinate encampments must 
conform to 300 

must conform to organic law.. 301 

cannot be^ suspended by G. P. . 302 

Dispensation to suspend, illegal 302 

cannot be amended or sus- 
pended by a resolution of 

G. E 303 

Sunday 

No meetings of encampment on, 
except for funerals 598 

to be observed 599 

Suspended Lodge 

Members thereof are suspended 
in G. E 472 

Office in G. E. is vacated by 
membership in a 472 

member of, has no right of 

visitation in encampment 902 

Although his dues are paid in 
advance in encampment and 
he holds an official receipt... 903 
Suspended Member 

refusal to reinstate not a rejec- 
tion 155 

Dismissal certificate, to issue on 
refusal to reinstate 155 

After 5 years suspension dis- 
missal certificate to 156 

Before 5 years suspension dis- 
missal certificate to 157 

for N. P. D. alone entitled to 
dismissal certificates 160 

Name of, for cause to be en- 
tered in G. E. book 246 

cannot be admitted into another 
jurisdiction without permis- 
sion of encampment ........ 455 

M,ember is entitled to visit his 
encampment until he is a 707 

not admitted in another juris- 
diction without permission of 
encampment 823 

for N. P. D. to be admitted as 
prescribed by general law.. 823 

cannot legally wear encampment 

regalia 824 

Suspension 

of benefits in lodge, no bar in 

encampment 69 

Officer not suspended by charges 
pending 205 



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Suspension — Continued 

not legal for failure to take 
degrees 321 

in encampment is a bar to office 
in G. E 428 

of Constitution by G. P. void. . 488 

G. P. cannot suspend encamp- 
ment unless local law so pro- 
vides 492 

forfeits honors of office 61 1 

of Patriarch from lodge 624 

Same power that suspends re- 
stores 634 

for N. P. D. does not affect en- 
campment membership for 
one year 629, 634 

Reinstatement in lodge rein- 
states in encampment 634 

of a patriarch should be so noted 
on books of encampment.... 634 

Dues begin from reinstatement 
in lodge 634 

for cause in lodge suspends in 
encampment 641 

Restoration for, for cause in 
lodge restores in encampment 641 

unless punished in encampment, 641 

by lodge. Patriarch must pay 
dues in encampment 642 

of lodge affects all Patriarch 
members thereof 648 

of lodge, suspends encampment 
membership 646, 648 

Aged Patriarch cannot be sus- 
pended for N. P. D 660 

in lodge suspends in Canton.. 727 

of encampments 825 

G. E. may suspend encampment, 825 

Wilful disobedience just ground 
for, of an encampment 826 

Power of G. P. to suspend an 
encampment depends upon 
local law 492, 827 

D. D. G. P. has no authority to 
suspend an encampment 828 

Special Deputy of G. P. may 
suspend encampment if au- 
thorized in writing for that 
purpose 829 

of an encampment takes effect 
from the time of notice of, 
published or nroclaimed .... 830 

It is duty of grand officers to 
make such proclamation..... 831 

of encampment of G. P. does 
not affect his standing in 
order 832 

Form of notice of intention to 
suspend a member for N. P. 
D 833 

Arrears for over one year makes 
P. liable to 834 

Time and not amount of ar- 
rears governs right to, for 
N. P. D 835 



Suspension — Continued 

Member square Jan, i cannot be 
suspended Dec. 28 836 

Encampment cannot refuse to 
receive all or part of a 
members dues prior to 837 

Constitution cannot take away 
this privilege 838 

of a member cannot take place 
unless he has had legal notice, 839 

There must be one month's 
notice given before 840 

One notice is sufficient 841 

If case be continued no further 
notice required if no dues are 
paid 841 

and likewise if dues but not full 
arreages are paid 842 

Reinstatement is the only means 
of regaining membership by a 
suspended member 842 

cannot be reconsidered 843 

for N. P. D. may be had when 
the accounts if corrected 
show that one year's dues are 
in arrears 844 

An insane member cannot be 
suspended for N. P. D 845 

Effect of, of lodge on office held 
by member in G.' E 885 

for cause in lodge vacates office 
in encampment 893 

Encampment has no power to 
provide otherwise 893 

for cause in lodge, deprives of 
right of visitation in encamp- 
ment 904 

Supersedeas 

Appeal is a 21 

Appeals to S. G. L. not a 29 

Supplies 

To print, publish, or issue un- 
warrantably is an offence. . 820 

Forms of, are exclusively prop- 
erty of S. G. L 821 

Charts may be issued under cer- 
tain restrictions 822 

Temple 

G. E. may authorize 518 

Term 

All reports are for the, then 

expiring 790 

Term Auditing Committee Report 

authorized 52 

Term Password 

General provisions concern- 
ing 704-711 

Terms 

Honors of office from service 
for a 522-532 

of grand officers 531, 846 

Officer voluntarily withdrawing 
successor becomes entitled to 
honors 846 

of subordinate officers 847 



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INDEX 



Terms — Continued 

Special terms for newly insti- 
tuted encampment 847 

G, E. cannot change 848 

in encampment are six months, 849 

G. E. may make terms begin in 
April and October 849 

G. E. may make, in encamp- 
ment one year 850 

No other than 6 months or i 
year terms are allowed 850 

end when succeeding one be- 
gins 850 

G. P. may grant dispensation to 
encampment to have yearly 
terms 851 

G. E. must fix the terms of en- 
campment 852 

Majority of meeting nights of a, 
defined 853 

Lodge and encampment cannot 
have the same 854 

G. E. cannot fix 3 months 855 

Terms of Scribe, Recording 
Scribe and Financial Scribe 
may be made yearly 856 

of Trustee may be made as long 
a time as local law permits. . 857 
Territorial Jurisdiction 

Encampment in another State 
must be nearest to residence, 3 

of encampment depends upon 
residence of applicant for 
membership 797 

of encampment as defined by 
general law 858 

Residence of applicant for mem- 
bership determines 859 

Consent must be obtained for 
admission of non-resident 
from nearest encampment . . 859 

of encampment as defined by 
local law 860 

Encampments may rearrange 
boundry by mutual agreement 
approved by G. P 861 

Form of request for permis- 
sion to admit a brother resid- 
ing outside of, of the encamp- 
ment 862 

Penalty for violation of laws 
relating to territorial jurisdic- 
tion 863 

Method of determining, of an 

encampment 864 

Territory 

Citizen of not admitted to mem- 
bership outside of, without 

permission i 

Test 

of membership, A. T. P. W 691 

Obligation no, of membership.. 910 
Testimony 

How taken 218 

Witnesses, how summoned .... 220 



Testimony — Continued 

Form of notice to witness 221 

Testimony by word of honor . . 223 
Witnesses not members testify 

under oath 223 

How given by member of Order 223 

How given by stranger 223 

Obligation to be administered to 

member of Order 224 

Depositions 225 

How taken for absent wit- 
nesses 226 

How taken for non-resident 

witnesses 227 

Records of encampment or 

lodge 234 

in rebuttal 235 

Thoughtlessness 

when a defence , . . . ^ .. . 12 

Time 

and not amount determines 

good standing 372 

Title of Officers 

Conducting anniversary cere- 
mony 19 

Transfer of Membership 

Visiting card deposited for, not 

to be returned to old lodge. . 172 
Form of, certificate for P. C. P. 721 
without change of residence 

with a visiting card 865, 866 

Ballot for, cannot be reconsid- 
ered 867 

Official certificate may be used 

in lieu of visiting card 868 

Admission fees must be paid. . . 869 
By change of residence from 
territorial jurisdiction of one 
encampment to territorial 

jurisdiction of another 870 

Applicant may pay his dues 
four weeks in advance of 

withdrawal 871 

This provision applies when- 
ever applicable 872 

Applicant for, must present a 
petition for admission to 

membership 873 

which need not be accompanied 
by an official certificate or 

withdrawal card 874 

Application for, defined 874 

Form of application for 875 

law was made applicable to en- 
campment in 1906 ... * 876 

After election to, Patriarch 
may complete same, although 
sick and liable to be a charge 

on the new encampment 877 

Treasurer 

Books of, to be audited .. 51 

cannot hold any other office in 

the encampment 355~357 

Jewel of, described 581 

may receive a salary 809 



INDEX 



151 



Trial 

See Charges and Trial 
Trial Committee 

See Charges and Trial 

Choice of 211 

Quorum of 222 

Trust Funds 

All money and property of an 
encampment are 442-449 

Funds of a defunct encampment 

are trust funds in G. E 442 

Trustee 

is not a qualifying office 425 

is not an officer of an encamp- 
ment 857 

may be elected for any length of 

term local law permits 857 

Twenty-sixth Day of April 

Anniversary of Order 16 

Uniform 

not part of name of encamp- 
ment 664 

Wearing of, not compulsory. . 664 

of P. M. is a regalia 730 

Chevalier in, may visit his own 
encampment , . . . 731 

General regulation concerning. . 878 

Description of 878 

cannot be worn unless G. E. so 
authorizes 879 

is purely voluntary 880 

at encampment meetings pre- 
scribed by By-law, is illegal. . 881 

White gloves not appropriate 
regalia 882 

R. P. degree uniform not to be 

worn at installation 883 

Unintentional Violation of Law, 

when a defense 12 

Unsound Health 

Concealment of, at admission, 

an ofTense 202 

Usages of the Order 

Govern all members in their en- 
campments 533 

Vacancy 

Inability to proceed by reason 
of sickness of commissioner 
creates a 2^2, 

Removal of G. P. from jurisdic- 
tion creates a 500 

Successor filling a vacancy en- 
titled to honors 846 

Vacation of Office 

not caused by arrears 408 

Effect of withdrawal card taken 
by grand officer for purpose 
of applying for a new charter, 884 

Effect of extinction of subor- 
dinate lodge or encampment 
of a grand officer 885 

Effect of suspension of encamp- 
ment of Grand Representa- 
tive , 886 



Vacation of Office — Continued 

Effect temporary absence of 
Grand Representative 887 

Effect of withdrawal card taken 
by Grand Officer 888 

Tem.porary vacation of office by 
withdrawal card 889 

Failure to appear for installa- 
tion makes a 890 

Death of an officer elect makes a 890 

Non-attendance will not create 
a, unless the local law or the 
By-laws so provides 891 

When a vacation of office occurs 
by reason of non-attendance 
the successor is entitled to the 
honors 892 

Suspension for cause in lodge 
vacates office in encampment, 893 

Encampment has no power to 

provide otherwise . > 893 

Venue 

No change of, in encampment. . 190 
Visitation 

Dismissal certificates confer no 
right to 151 

Encampment visiting cannot 
take candidate along and have 
degrees conferred without 
regular request in writing 
under seal 325*326 

Encampment not to receive 
grand honors 482 

Elective Grand Officers may in- 
troduce visiting Patriarchs . . . 487 

G. P. may introduce visiting 
Patriarchs 487 

Patriarch suspended in lodge 
cannot visit encampment .... 643 

Visiting Patriarch to prove him- 
self in A. T. P. W. of date of 
card or official certificate 699 

To receive A. T. P. W. in force 
at time of 700 

Chevalier in uniform may visit 
his own encampment 731 

Patriarch being examined in 
ante-room need not be in 
regalia 762 

The right of 894 

Member of G. E. may visit an- 
other G. E 894 

Regulations concerning visita- 
tion generally 895 

Holder of visiting card may 
visit 89s 

Must have A. T. P. W 895 

By introduction of elective 
Grand Officer or Grand Rep- 
resentative 89s 

Holder of dismissal certificate 
cannot visit 895 

Holder of official certificate 
showing dues paid in advance 
may visit 896 



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Visitation — Continued 

Grand Representative not a 
P. C P. cannot visit G. E. . . . 897 

Encampment may visit another 
encampment in a body. 898 

Regulations concerning such 
visitation 898 

A. T. P. W. alone will not per- 
mit Patriarch to visit 899 

An expired visiting card or offi- 
cial certificate will not permit 
Patriarch to visit 900 

Official certificate good for, only 
up to the expiration of the 
time dues are paid in ad- 
vance 901 

Member of suspended or ex- 
pelled lodge has no right of. . 902 

Although his dues in encamp- 
ment are paid in advance and 
he holds an official receipt 903 

Patriarch suspended in lodge 
for cause cannot visit encamp- 
ment 904 

Patriarch in arrears more than 
13 weeks cannot visit en- 
campments, but may visit his 
own encampment 905, 906 

Disorderly visitor may be re- 
fused admission or ejected. . . 907 

Examination and introduction. . 908 

Examination may be dispensed 
with in subsequent visits 908 

Provided card is in date 908 

C. P. must be fully satisfied as 
to the identity of the Patri- 
arch and that card is in date, 909 

A test obligation is no part of 
the examination of a visiting 
Patriarch 910 

Grand Representative or elec- 
tive Grand Officer introducing 
visiting Patriarch must make 
official visitation 911 

Visitors must under all circum- 
stances be members of the 
Patriarchal Branch 912 

When Patriarch is introduced 
by Grand Representative or 
by elective Grand Officer no 
password is to be required by 
encampment of visiting Pa- 
triarch 913 

Visiting Cards 

The character of attentive bene- 
fits to be endorsed on visiting 
cards 108 

Compensation to nurses to be 
endorsed on visiting cards... 108 

Amount of weekly and funeral 
benefits to be indorsed on 
visiting cards 109 

Any Patriarch in good standing 
entitled to, for reasonable 
length of time 167 



Visiting Cards — Continued 

C P. and Scribe may issue dur- 
ing recess, upon application 
in writing 168 

must report same to next meet- 
ing of encampment 168 

in date an order for the pass- 
word 169 

Privileges conferred by 170 

to be endorsed with statement 
as to pecuniary and attentive 
benefits 171, 173 

New, not to be issued until old 
returned 172 

except on transfer of member- 
ship 172 

if in force entitles holder to 
visit 8q5 

must be in force to permit vis- 
itation on 900 

Violations of Law 

how corrected, vi 

Vote 

on penalty precludes a greater 
punishment being subsequent- 
ly imposed 248 

Voting 

Members voting, must be quali- 
fied to vote 58 

Majority of legal voters is re- 
quired 544 

A tie vote defeats an application 
for reinstatement 780 

Member of G. E. cannot vote 
upon any question affecting 
his encampment 914 

This applies to all preliminary 
questions 915 

Even though the rules of order 
provide that every member 
shall vote 915 

Every member is required to 
vote 916 

But quorum must be present. . 916 

No member of an encampment 
shall vote upon any financial 
question in which he has a 
direct personal interest. ..... 917 

Members may vote on question 
of renting property of en- 
campment to organiation in 
which Patriarch is a member, 917 

Members cannot vote upon any 
question in which they are 
interested 918 

To do so is an offense punish- 
able by suspension 918 

Waiver 

Encampment may waive requi- 
site of proposition fee 6 

Watch 

Jewel of, described 585 

Watchers 

Sacred duty to watch with sick, 72 



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Watchers — Continued 

Method of providing controlled 
by encampment 72 

May levy assessment for 72 

May charge dues for 72 

May draft for 72 

May fine for neelect to act. .. . 73 

Beneficial standing not requisite 

for 74 

Week Day 

Meetings of encampment must 
be held on a 597 

And on a specified 597 

Weekly Benefits 

The financial standing of en- 
campment does not vary rates 
of dues for benefits given in 
constitution 75 

Obligation to pay, continues 
until charter of encampment 
surrendered or annulled .... 76 

No dispensation valid to sus- 
pend 77 

By-laws may reduce to $1 77 

G. P. may grant dispensation to 
change By-laws for limited 
period 78 

G. P. may grant dispensation to 
extend period 78 

Found at work while receiving, 80 

Works of mercy, necessity or 
charity do not forfeit 81 

May be reduced according to 
amount received 82 

What period of working 
amounts to a complete re- 
covery 83 

What amount of work will 
deprive of 84 

Infirmities concealed at ad- 
mission 85 

Occupation and livelihood 86 

Begin from time of sickness 
unless By-laws say other- 
wise 87 

Claims for, must comply with 
requirements of By-laws 88 

An adverse decision for, and 
unappealed from is binding 
on the heirs of Patriarch ... 89 

Regulations for, must be uni- 
form as to all members . 90 

Agreement by charter appli- 
cants as to, is not binding on 
encampment 90 

Withdrawal card granted re- 
lieves encampment from li- 
ability to 91 

On transfer of membership 
dues may be paid in ad- 
vance to secure 91 

Scribe proper officer to whom 
to make application for 92 

Notice not required of change 
of By-laws affecting 93 



Weekly Benefits — Continued 

May be retained to reimburse 
encampment for over-paid... 93 

By-laws affecting, operate alike 
as to the sick or the well. ... 93 

improperly granted and re- 
ceived no ground for charges, 94 

improperly granted may be de- 
ducted from salary 94 

Amount of, to be endorsed on 

visiting card 109, 173 

• G. E. may provide for re- 
linquishment of, by inmates 
of homes 534 

G. E. may provide for payment 

of, to the homes 536 

Widows' and Orphans' Fund 

A trust fund 919 

Regulations concerning 919 

Widows' and Orphans' Homes 

G. E. may authorize 518 

Widows' and Orphans' Home of 
Allegheny County 

Representative authorized .... 519 
Wife 

of an insane Patriarch to re- 
ceive his benefits 538 

Conflict between claimants as 
to, of insane Patriarch en- 
campment may withhold all 
benefits until question set- 
tled 920 

Wilful Disobedience 

of encampment just cause for 

suspension 826 

Withdrawal Card 

to sever membership relieves 
encampment from payment of 
benefits 91 

to transfer membership may not 
relieve encampment from pay- 
ment of benefits 91 

Defunct ^ certificate equivalent 
to expired 140, 141 

Defunct, good for one year 
from date of dissolution of 
encampment 143, 145 

Any Patriarch in good stand- 
ing may receive by consent of 
encampment 167 

to be granted by ballot 174 

In case of refusal of, may re- 
sign 174 

May appeal from refusal to 
grant 174 

Patriarch must pay up in full 
to be entitled to 175 

must be granted by a quorum, 176 

not an order for the password, 177 

must have A. T. P. W. or an 
order for the same 177 

Grand Representative, or officer 
of the S. G. L. or Grand 
Officer does not forfeit office 
by taking 178 



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Withdrawal Card — Continued 

Must deposit same within one 

month 178 

During interval office in abey- 
ance 178 

may be declared void by 

encampment 179 

Before but not after expiration, 180 
Dues applicant for, must pay. . 181 
holder of, from lodge not 

proper petitioner for charter 260 
Patriarch with encampment, 

may petition for charter 261 

of Patriarch from lodge 624 

Illegal to confer membership 

on holder of lodge 627 

Patriarch taking, member of en- 
campment one year 628 

Provided dues are paid 628 

deposited with Grand Secretary 
as applicant for charter main- 
tains encampment member- 
ship 630 

Effect of Cheva;lier taking, in 

encampment 725 

To transfer membership effect 
of 865-877 



Withdrawal Cakd— Continued 

Effect of, on office held by a 

Grand Officer 884, 888, 889 

Witness 

How summoned 220 

Witnesses 

Not to be recalled, except 233 

Work of the Order 

Competitive degree 283 

G. E. must enforce adherence 
to that presented by S. G. L., 754 

Not to be exposed or used for 
evidence outside of encam.p- 
ment 815 

may be exemplified at special 
session of G. E 816 

written, is that found in the 
ritual 921 

The unwritten is that communi- 
cated to members and officers, 921 

Encampment should possess 
itself ^ of the means of in- 
structing in the 922 

S. G. L. has exclusive jurisdic- 
tion over the 923 

Firearms are positively forbid- 
den in the encampment 924 



AUU 33 1907 



